Improving Quote by Robert E. Lee

You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by…

— Medgar Evers

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

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

— Langston Hughes

“The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new black man,…

— James Baldwin

When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you're average and white, honey, you can go far. Just…

— Annie Elizabeth Delany

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

— Nat King Cole

The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

All peoples are struggling to blast a way through the industrial monopoly of races and nations, but the Negro as a whole has failed…

— Marcus Garvey

“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

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

“You all know from past experiences that the white man only sees the bad that our people do to them. They are blind to…

— Violetta Botzet Luetgers

You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.

— William Christopher Handy