Causes Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois

“Color prejudice is at the bottom of everything. If it’s not fixed, the plight of the Negro will continue long after abolition.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“It is not enough for the Negroes to declare that color-prejudice is the sole cause of their social condition, nor for the white South…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere…

— Jesse Helms

If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them…

— Carter G. Woodson

Negroes just can't judge each other according to color, because we are all colors, all complexions.

— Malcolm X

The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to four hundred years of the conscious racism…

— Malcolm X

At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters.

— Marcus Garvey

The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of…

— Malcolm X

One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus…

— H. L. Mencken

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind,

— Langston Hughes

“It has come as a great revelation to me that abolitionist is different from the desire for racial equality. Color prejudice is at the…

— Sue Monk Kidd

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their…

— Frederick Douglass