Benefits Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind,

— Langston Hughes

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come…

— Wendell Willkie

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

“black peoples have no historic pasts. Never having evolved civilizations of their own, they are practically devoid of that accumulated mass of beliefs, thoughts,…

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.

— Malcolm X

So the Negro race has continued, and today is the day of the Negro as far as the world is concerned. They have influenced…

— Warren Jeffs

I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilization of their complexion, nor…

— David Hume

Do you know what the Negro is? Animal right out of the jungle. Passion. Welfare. Easy life. That's the Negro.

— Anonymous

I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must be spent…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.

— Frederick Douglass

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem…

— Booker T. Washington

The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

— Malcolm X