African american Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where…

— Zora Neale Hurston

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 aren't seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100 percent strong…

— Jackie Robinson

Let us prepare TODAY. For the TOMORROWS in the lives of the nations will be so eventful that Negroes everywhere will be called upon…

— Marcus Garvey

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

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem…

— Booker T. Washington

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

— Carter G. Woodson

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

The feelings, myths and prejudices about the Negro American which now seem so valid and real to some of our white contemporaries will take…

— Margaret Halsey

It should seem that Negroes, of all Americans, would be found in the Free-thought fold, since they have suffered more than any other class…

— Hubert Harrison

Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

— John Adams

Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of the African…

— Roger B. Taney