"Someone must show that the Afro-American race is……" — William Wells Brown
"Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to do so. The awful death roll called every week is appalling, not only because of the lives taken, the cruelty and outrage to the victims, but because of the prejudice it fosters."
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William Wells Brown
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9 Quotes by William Wells Brown
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This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of…
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I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the…
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The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.
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All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and…
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I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name.
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Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.
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When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered…
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People don't follow titles, they follow courage.
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More Afro Quotes
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The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being.…
— Malcolm X
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Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans…
— Thurgood Marshall
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I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps…
— Malcolm X
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Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was…
— Helen McCrory
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In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really…
— Sugar Ray Leonard
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The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the…
— Harryette Mullen
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The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man…
— Ida B. Wells
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
— Ida B. Wells
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It is not a case of our people...wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the…
— Malcolm X
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Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch…
— Colson Whitehead
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I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be…
— Miriam Makeba
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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
— Fidel Castro
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