Class Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois

One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“It was a grand opportunity for the low whites, who had no negroes of their own to scourge. They exulted in such a chance…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“The average Negro is born into want and deprivation. His struggle to escape his circumstances is hindered by color discrimination. He is deprived of…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“The negroes been freed.' 'Well, I ain't.”

— Andrew Lytle

“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

“It was well understood that if by the teaching of history the white man could be further assured of his superiority and the Negro…

— Carter G. Woodson

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable…

— Albert Bushnell Hart

For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

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

— Langston Hughes

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

You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by…

— Medgar Evers

“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