Abroad Quote by Paul Robeson

I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient…

— Jackie Robinson

There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I have travelled the globe and experienced racial remarks towards me because I am black, believe me, the list goes on.

— Chris Gayle

If you are a minority, it is important that you have legal ways to defend yourself in the society in which you live.

— Shelby Steele

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

— Frederick Douglass

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

— Constance Baker Motley

I'm an African. I was brought up here; my home is here. Being an Afropolitan, I am here to stay.

— Binyavanga Wainaina

I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that…

— Paul Robeson

My vehemence was against the federal courts. I never said a word against black people in my heart since I ran for governor.

— George Wallace

I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am…

— Andrew Johnson

In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I ask for…

— Frederick Douglass

It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.

— William Lacy Clay, Jr