Amusement Quote by Strom Thurmond

I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation…

— Strom Thurmond

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

— Carter G. Woodson

We must have black troops, and a limitless number of them too - paid and treated like their white brothers.

— Benjamin Lincoln

The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced.

— Robert Toombs

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which…

— Fanny Kemble

Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have…

— Frederick Douglass

“Our government seemed to expect the same of them as of white men. Poor Negroes! They are hopelessly inferior. . . . If you…

— Joseph E. Persico

Any time a negro community lives under fear that its churches are going to be bombed, then they have to realize they're living in…

— Malcolm X

There's an old saying in the black community that everybody else is protected and served but we are policed, we don't want to be…

— Benjamin Crump

Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that…

— Ella Baker

You do not preach and encourage hatred for the Negro and hope to restrict it to that field. It is an old, old story.…

— Ralph McGill

Pervasive 'whites-only' policies and hateful narratives could not be further from the values that underpin our Armed Forces: those of integrity, respect for others,…

— Amber Rudd