American people Quote by Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

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

“(The essence of the irony of the plight of the Negro in America, to me, is that he is doomed to live in isolation…

— Richard Wright

One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus…

— H. L. Mencken

“He was suggesting that all Negroes were held in a state of supreme tension between the difficult, dangerous relationship in which they stood to…

— James Baldwin

“You taste injustice, even if it’s fictional, really taste it,it has a way of doing that. Sometimes, you can never put the shoe on…

— Kristen Ashley

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

— Frederick Douglass

The Negro does not want love. He wants justice . . . I believe it would be better for the Negro's soul to be…

— E. Franklin Frazier

“We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the…

— Andrew Carnegie

It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

When the Negro learns what manner of man he is spiritually, he will wake up all over. He will stop playing white even on…

— Nannie Helen Burroughs

“We can't simply point out racial injustices, but for the sake of the gospel work to heal them.”

— Jerry Kinard

“The growing spirit of kindliness and reconciliation between the North and South after the frightful differences of a generation ago ought to be a…

— W.E.B. DuBois