Blacks Quote by Maureen Dowd

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.

— Nat King Cole

If they did not want President Obama in office, why are they prepping another black man for office?

— Steve Polydor

Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.

— Ned Sublette

“The sober truth is that the most important civil rights battles were fought and won four decades before the Obama presidency. The black underclass…

— Jason L. Riley

Part of it is eight years of a black president, and white America still lost their [minds] about that. Part of it is a…

— Junot Diaz

If they did not want President Obama in office, why are they prepping another black person into office?

— Steve Polydor

Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the…

— A. Philip Randolph

“SA's challenge is to get the democratic whole working in the way that the formerly white parts are used to. SA's threat is that…

— Denis Beckett

“In 1963, Robert Novak had written that many Republican leaders were intent on converting the Party of Lincoln into the White Man’s Party. The…

— Ian Haney López

But he [Franklin Roosevelt] specifically prohibits any black participation from the Deep South, something which just infuriates people who'd been his supporters and who'd…

— Geoffrey Cowan

For the first time ever, a black Republican woman has been elected to Congress. President Obama told her, 'You are all set. This country…

— Conan O'Brien