African american Quote by Martin Luther King Jr Download Open image “To be a Negro in America is to hope against hope.” — Martin Luther King Jr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare African american America and americans America Hope Hope Hope Hope Negro Negro America Racism
Taking it all in all and after all, negro life in Washington is a promise rather than a fulfillment. But it is worthy of… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America. — Jay Saunders Redding Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, when hope diminishes, the hate is often turned most bitterly toward those who originally built up the hope. In all the speaking that… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Negroes aren't seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100 percent strong… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving,… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity. — Major Taylor Copy Share Image
The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are born with freedom and hope, but often that's dashed because of our color. But in school, I'd already been taught that no… — Louis Gossett, Jr Copy Share Image
It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair. — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice; say that I… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.” — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
God has set the type of marriage everywhere throughout the creation. Every creature seeks its perfection in another. The very heavens and earth picture… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“It is not enough to say, 'We must not wage war.' It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“When, for decades, you have been able to make a man compromise his manhood by threatening him with a cruel and unjust punishment, and… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Deep in our history of struggle for freedom, Canada was the North star” — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“This popularity extended to Trump himself, who, according to private demographic research conducted at the time, was even more popular with African American and… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I know I'm more forgiving than most African Americans when it comes to second chances for White people who not only commit a racial… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here… — Ken Mehlman Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default. — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate… — Richard Allen Copy Share Image
It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes, you know,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
