50 Negroes Quotes for You to Enjoy

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Truth Lie Inferiority Every Society Negroes Remind Accepted Waking Discrimination Dominating Them Moment Lives

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven. Jackie Robinson

Life Today Day Equality Wait Big Judgment Walks Club Believe Every Other Earth Negroes Out Willing Minor Minor League Counted Longer League Until Well Up Heaven Want Stand Stand Up Baseball Play Here Millions

The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years. Malcolm X

Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem. Malcolm X

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. Marilyn Monroe

Needs World Feeling Stars Everybody Jews Say Negroes Arabs Brothers Kinship Real Real Feeling Laborers Want Really

Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the Negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. Sojourner Truth

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. Martin Luther King, Jr.

White Society Crimes Negroes Born Greater Committed Deplorable Derivative

Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing and shelter, it is obvious that the Republican and Democratic Parties are opposed to their interests. A. Philip Randolph

Food Live Negroes High Cost Almost Almost All Since Parties Democratic Obvious Shelter Wages Opposed Clothing Republican Workers Interests Suffer

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners. Mahatma Gandhi

Negroes Fact Being Dishonor Ashamed Grandchildren Million Slaves

The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races. W. E. B. Du Bois

Education Death Best Problem Men First Own Saved Other Guide Negroes Worst All Races Must Exceptional Developing Tenth Mass Contamination Talented Like First Of All Deal Going May Race Races Then Away Among

I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon. Bayard Rustin

War World Progress Seen Richard Nixon Negroes Destroyed Nixon Administration Hopes Seeing Followed Rise Only Johnson Smashed Reaction Periods Am Years Eisenhower Victories Richard Aspirations Kennedy World War World War II

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased. Ida B. Wells

Vote Satisfied Negroes Menace Spirit Alleged Having Absolute Suppression Been Mob Should Avoided Suffrage Universal Universal Suffrage

Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of the African race, will see that a general and sudden emancipation would be absolute ruin to the Negroes, as well as to the white population. Roger B. Taney

Life Character Will White Every Carefully State Ruin Emancipation Negroes Has-Been Would Would-Be See General Absolute Observed Well Passed Been Intelligent Intelligent Person Person African Race Capacity Who Sudden Population Whose

In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment. W. E. B. Du Bois

Constitution Word Before Carefully States Negroes Constitution Of The United States Fellows Although Referred Amendment Avoided United United States Slave

Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes. A. Philip Randolph

Free Minds Negroes Would Freed Merely Lincoln Bodies

Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home. A. Philip Randolph

Home Democracy Negroes Mood Guns Abroad Denied While Shoulder Here

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes. Alden Nowlan

Poverty Gone Think Background Negroes Rural About Only Write Writers Come Been North North American American Who American Writers

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake. Gordon Parks

People Matter Thought Become White Negroes Bad Indians Shake More More Or Less Color Involved Sort Were Person Getting Anyone Happening Whether Poor Less Who Things

I was imprisoned in Missouri in 1854 for preaching the gospel to Negroes, though I was never subjected to violence. Hiram Rhodes Revels

Preaching Negroes Though Never Missouri Gospel Subjected Imprisoned Violence

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