Discover Quote by Medgar Evers

The Negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs.

— Kelly Miller

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

“Now it happens that both master and man have just enough argument on their respective sides to make it difficult for them to understand…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

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

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he…

— Carter G. Woodson

“The average Negro is born into want and deprivation. His struggle to escape his circumstances is hindered by color discrimination. He is deprived of…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“The so-called education of Negro college graduates leads them to throw away opportunities which they have and to go in quest of those which…

— Carter G. Woodson

Once the white man let the Negro get an education, the Negro began to want what the white man has. But he let Negroes…

— Malcolm X

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

It is said that the Negro is ignorant. But why is he ignorant? It comes with ill grace from a man who has put…

— Frances Harper

The true Negro does not want integration... He realizes his potential is far better among his own race.

— Jerry Falwell

“I keep thinking about Marcus Garvey and what he says about black people knowing themselves. It's clear that if the so-called Negro goes to…

— Vaunda Micheaux Nelson