Body Quote by Thomas Jefferson

I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinctby time and circumstances, are inferior…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made…

— Steven Biko

The Negro is superior to the white race. If the latter do not forget their pride of race and color, and amalgamate with the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

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 I have had it withdrawn from…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

Given the historical power differential between blacks and whites, blacks are required to be attentive to the way their white counterparts see themselves in…

— James A. Forbes

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once…

— Jesse Jackson

Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil.

— David Wilmot

“The intellects of the Harlem Renaissance realized that before whites would see blacks as equals, first blacks had to see themselves that way- and…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“they refused to define their own assimilationist ideas of Black behavioral inferiority as racist. These assimilationists defined only segregationist ideas of Black biological inferiority…

— Ibram X. Kendi

I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that…

— David Walker

The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.

— Josephine Baker