America Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois

Negroes aren't seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100 percent strong…

— Jackie Robinson

From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.

— Jay Saunders Redding

The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving,…

— Che Guevara

Taking it all in all and after all, negro life in Washington is a promise rather than a fulfillment. But it is worthy of…

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.

— Major Taylor

“The so-called education of Negro college graduates leads them to throw away opportunities which they have and to go in quest of those which…

— Carter G. Woodson

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

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

— Ethel Waters

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had…

— Richard Wright

“We "BLACKS" we have many talents and many great things we can do in life...but we just don't have the ability to try.”

— Ralph Ramovha

The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuable contributions from…

— Kenneth Clark

I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom…

— Zora Neale Hurston