Average Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois

People sometimes ask me if I would not give anything to be white, I answer, in the words of the song, most emphatically, 'No.'…

— Bert Williams

The Negro wants to be everything but himself... He wants to integrate with the white man, but he cannot integrate with himself or with…

— Elijah Muhammad

A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports…

— Malcolm X

White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words of the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the subsidy or…

— Malcolm X

I adore my black skin and my kinky hair. The Negro hair is more educated than the white man's hair. Because with Negro hair,…

— Carolina Maria de Jesus

I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man's inhuman treatment of the Negro.

— Rosa Parks

Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function never enables…

— Malcolm X

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

— Malcolm X

When the Negro finds the courage to be free, he faces dogs and guns and clubs and fire hoses totally unafraid, and the white…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.

— Bill Cosby

The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence;…

— Alexis de Tocqueville