Assuming Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois

I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are, man?'

— Guy Scott

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it…

— Arthur Ashe

We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the…

— Joe Slovo

What whites have rarely had to think about—because being the dominant group, we are so used to having our will done, with a little…

— Tim Wise

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

— Thomas Sowell

We all stand on the shoulders of our ancestors. We're in a relay race, relying on the financial and human capital of our parents…

— Nicholas Kristof

I think one of the great things that I have seen happen since the rise of the movement for black lives is the growth…

— Eugene Puryear

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation…

— Louis Farrakhan

“The idea that blacks, or anyone for that matter, need the government to get ahead in life is despicable. And even more important, this…

— Elbert Guillory

“There is no Black person here who can afford to wait to be led into positive action for survival. Each one of us must…

— Audre Lorde

Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a…

— Derrick Bell

If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It is not…

— W. E. B. Du Bois