Always Quote by Medgar Evers

I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'

— Dick Gregory

“They all followed Mississippi’s example, instituting race-veiled voting restrictions, from literacy tests to poll taxes, that would purge their voting rolls of the remaining…

— Ibram X. Kendi

The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime,…

— Lee De Forest

“One law prohibited blacks from testifying against whites in court, and carefully defined “negro” as anyone who had one nonwhite grandparent.”

— Gail Collins

My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow…

— Mark McMorris

The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they…

— Chief Joseph

One of the things I remember as a child: There was a man named Joe Pulliam. He was a great Christian man; but one…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

As a father of two black sons now, you ask yourself, 'What do I have to do to assure the safety of these boys?'…

— Sterling K. Brown

I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.

— Angelina Grimke

In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“Even to-day the masses of the Negroes see all too clearly the anomalies of their position and the moral crookedness of yours. You may…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

Everything the black people are doing comes from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. They are black now, they don't want to be called Negroes. This…

— Muhammad Ali