Any Quote by Sammy Davis, Jr

They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro.

— Jesse Helms

“Black women are acting irresponsibly by giving birth to baby after baby out of wedlock. Most of these children are from different fathers as…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

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

— Nat King Cole

I am in a mixed race marriage myself, and I have a mixed race son…The racial perception interest is probably always going to be…

— Celeste Ng

I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to stay and build healthy relationships has…

— Hill Harper

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

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.

— Dorothy Height

Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the…

— Pearl S. Buck

It's really not enough to just have black women. A really good idea could be to comment on how they are treated by society.

— Lea DeLaria

“The reality is that many Black men in the household are conditioned to see that their sole responsibility as a parent is to provide…

— Anonymous

I am a Black woman raised by parents who were active in the civil-rights movement.

— Maya Wiley

I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environmental conditioning. I have had it withdrawn from…

— Bertrand Russell