Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind. Langston Hughes American Poet More Langston Hughes Quotes 1
It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual. Zora Neale Hurston American Dramatist More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes 0
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 Canadian Poet More Alden Nowlan Quotes 0
The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters. Burke Marshall American Lawyer More Burke Marshall Quotes 0
The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute. Samuel George Morton American Scientist More Samuel George Morton Quotes 0
Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely? Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet Union or the peoples' democracies. Paul Robeson American Actor More Paul Robeson Quotes 0
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. Ethel Waters American Musician More Ethel Waters Quotes 0
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 American Activist More Ida B. Wells Quotes 0
Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service. John Sergeant Wise American Author More John Sergeant Wise Quotes 0
However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children. John Sergeant Wise American Author More John Sergeant Wise Quotes 0
It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more and more so. Thomas L. Smith American Explorer More Thomas L. Smith Quotes 0
Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority. Carter G. Woodson American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do. Carter G. Woodson American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination. Carter G. Woodson American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists. Carter G. Woodson American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people. Carter G. Woodson American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers. Carter G. Woodson American Historian More Carter G. Woodson Quotes 0
Here then I could conclude; but I must not forget the poor negroes; no, I must not. Jesus Christ had died for them, as well as for others. George Whitefield More George Whitefield Quotes 0
A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them. Ray Stannard Baker American Journalist More Ray Stannard Baker Quotes 0
Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached. C. L. R. James Journalist More C. L. R. James Quotes 0
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 American Photographer More Gordon Parks Quotes 0
The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars. John H. Reagan American Politician More John H. Reagan Quotes 0
I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers. Nat King Cole American Musician More Nat King Cole Quotes 0
I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes. Nat King Cole American Musician More Nat King Cole Quotes 0
What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches. Jean Genet French Dramatist More Jean Genet Quotes 0