Far Quote by Medgar Evers

I have never seen any good resulting from educating the Negro.

— Henry Carter Stuart

You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by…

— Medgar Evers

Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as…

— Malcolm X

The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality,…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

— Nat King Cole

“In 1963, Ebony magazine reported that “there [was] not one Negro in building trades apprenticeship training programs in Fort Wayne Indiana, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Baltimore,…

— Karl Alexander

The problem of the negro is so criminal that many individuals and organizations are going to have to sacrifice what they call their organizational…

— Malcolm X

“Today even the attitude of the Southern whites toward the blacks is not, as so many assume, in all cases the same; the ignorant…

— W.E.B. Du Bois