Business Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois

I am principled against selling negroes, as you would do cattle at a market.

— George Washington

The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“When one-third of the population of the erstwhile Confederacy had consisted of the much-maligned Sons of Ham, the blacks had really been of economic,…

— George S. Schuyler

This is about black people selling out other black people.

— John Mellencamp

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition was badly…

— William Silverman

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows…

— Henry David Thoreau

Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they…

— Albert Einstein

The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none,…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

There is no truth to the myth that Negroes depreciate property. The fact is that most Negroes are kept out of residential neighborhoods so…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.

— W. E. B. Du Bois