Quote by Richard Wright

“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,…

— James Baldwin

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“When one-third of the population of the erstwhile Confederacy had consisted of the much-maligned Sons of Ham, the blacks had really been of economic,…

— George S. Schuyler

“It was a grand opportunity for the low whites, who had no negroes of their own to scourge. They exulted in such a chance…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“Today even the attitude of the Southern whites toward the blacks is not, as so many assume, in all cases the same; the ignorant…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“It reminded me of a time thirteen centuries away, when the "poor whites" of our South who were always despised and frequently insulted by…

— Mark Twain

“Although there was always generosity in the Negro neighborhood, it was indulged on pain of sacrifice. Whatever was given by Black people to other…

— Maya Angelou

“The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they…

— Albert Einstein

“If we had learned anything over the last decade, it was that there was no other way to defeat slavery, except with a willingness…

— Russell Banks

Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. But I am also concerned for their dignity,…

— James Baldwin