Quotes about Negro

The Negro was invented in America. Votes: 3

I was born in a Negro town. Votes: 3

Talk about handicap! I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew. Votes: 3

Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude. Votes: 3

Would America have been America without her Negro people? Votes: 3

The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization. Votes: 3

The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale. Votes: 3

Martin Luther King has made the Negro in America unnatural. Votes: 3

The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away. Votes: 3

I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected Votes: 3

To be Negro in America is to hope against hope. Votes: 3

Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro. Votes: 3

The day for the Negro man being a coward is over. Votes: 3

I have never seen any good resulting from educating the Negro. Votes: 3

Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy Votes: 3

As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing. Votes: 3

American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future. Votes: 3

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black. Votes: 3

Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful. Votes: 3

I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered. Votes: 3

A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music. Votes: 3

America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music. Votes: 3

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro. Votes: 3

There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals. Votes: 3

No person having the least particle of Negro blood can hold the Priesthood Votes: 3

We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music. Votes: 3

I proudly love being a Negro woman -- it's so involved and interesting. Votes: 3

The Negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs. Votes: 3

[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking. Votes: 3

Once he [Negro] realizes that [he is at war ], then he can defend himself. Votes: 3

Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful! Votes: 3

Martin Luther King has taken away from the Negro his Gov-given right to defend himself. Votes: 3

The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system! Votes: 3

From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America. Votes: 3

I think that we've got to come to see this. The Negro is an American. Votes: 3

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man. Votes: 3

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist. Votes: 3

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. Votes: 3

The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered. Votes: 3

No man will ever be president of the United States who spells Negro with two g's. Votes: 3

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me. Votes: 3

Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response. Votes: 3

I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle. Votes: 3

It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude. Votes: 3

I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap. Votes: 3

I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa. Votes: 3

Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals? Votes: 3

The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images. Votes: 3

The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless. Votes: 3

By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality. Votes: 3

The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negro had but few pegs to fall. Votes: 3

Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along. Votes: 3

The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt. Votes: 3

The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice. Votes: 3

America is ready to elect its first African American President, especially one with light-skin and and no Negro dialect. Votes: 3

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian. Votes: 3

I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life. Votes: 3

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.' Votes: 3

Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star. Votes: 3

You can't say the Negro left the Republican Party; the Negro feels he was evicted from the Republican Party. Votes: 3

Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation. Votes: 3

But the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target Votes: 3

If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers. Votes: 3

The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house. Votes: 3

At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family. Votes: 3

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free. Votes: 3

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind, Votes: 3

Do you know what the Negro is? Animal right out of the jungle. Passion. Welfare. Easy life. That's the Negro. Votes: 3

They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro. Votes: 3

I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes. Votes: 3

In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music. Votes: 3

Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers? Votes: 3

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Votes: 3

In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in. Votes: 3

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation. Votes: 3

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted. Votes: 3

Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand. Votes: 3

Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company. Votes: 3

If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement. Votes: 3

If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful. Votes: 3

If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it. Votes: 3

We're ready for a real black President - someone like Jay-Z. Obama's fine, just not all black. He's our gateway Negro. Votes: 3

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race. Votes: 3

Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories. Votes: 3

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. Votes: 3

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior. Votes: 3

I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent. Votes: 3

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just. Votes: 3

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction ... Votes: 3

Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy? Votes: 3

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God. Votes: 3

You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down. Votes: 3

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. Votes: 3

You may baptize as long as you want, but the Jew remains a Jew, the Chinese a Chinese and the Negro a Negro. Votes: 3

A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him. Votes: 3

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine. Votes: 3

Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life Votes: 3

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man. Votes: 3

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line. Votes: 3

If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race. Votes: 3

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened. Votes: 3

At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters. Votes: 3

If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it. Votes: 3

There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity. Votes: 3

Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life. Votes: 3

One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin. Votes: 3

In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. Votes: 3

It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year. Votes: 3

Perhaps the little Negro girl was holding a concealed razor blade. Maybe she was one of the troublemakers out for a fresh white scalp. Votes: 3

If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up. Votes: 3

I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them. Votes: 3

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted. Votes: 3

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman. Votes: 3

Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful. Votes: 3

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt. Votes: 3

Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes! Votes: 3

All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement, Votes: 3

The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog. Votes: 3

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits. Votes: 3

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency. Votes: 3

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk. Votes: 3

I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South. Votes: 3

Films make me into some cheap turn...You bet they'll never let me play a part in a film where a Negro is on top. Votes: 3

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman. Votes: 3

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies. Votes: 3

Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system. Votes: 3

Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole. Votes: 3

The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced. Votes: 3

Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association. Votes: 3

The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites. Votes: 3

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery. Votes: 3

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted. Votes: 3

It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up. Votes: 3

If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated. Votes: 3

America is the only country in the world that classifies as Negro any person who has one drop of African blood in his or her veins. Votes: 3

I guess what really made me a Dodgers fan from the beginning was that the team had Jackie Robinson, the first 'Negro' in the major leagues. Votes: 3

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow. Votes: 3

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage "“ though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow. Votes: 3

What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic. Votes: 3

I don't want to pass because I can't stand insincerities and shams. I am just as much Negro as any of the others identified with the race. Votes: 3

The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to. Votes: 3

I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills. Votes: 3

The American Negro has been entirely brainwashed from ever seeing or thinking of himself, as he should, as a part of the non-white peoples of the world. Votes: 3

Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind. Votes: 3

Any way, any form necessary to defend himself; Negro should reserve the right to do that just the same as others have the right to do it. Votes: 3

No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices. Votes: 3

It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. Votes: 3

The only minority in America that's asking for integration is the so-called Negro, primarily because he is inferior, not inherently inferior, but he's economically, socially, politically inferior. Votes: 3

An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man from Africa. Votes: 3

The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks, and the voice of the New Negro is heard. Votes: 3

Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time. Votes: 3

You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt. Votes: 3

The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all. Votes: 3

The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men's rights. Votes: 3

Nonviolent resistance makes it possible for the Negro to remain in the South and struggle for his rights. The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away. Votes: 3

Biologically speaking the Afro-Asiatic block is in the ascendancy - always remember that both Negro and White are minority groups - the largest race is the Mongoloid group. Votes: 3

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival, Votes: 3

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival. Votes: 3

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. Votes: 3

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves. Votes: 3

It always seemed to me that white people were judged as individuals. But if a Negro did something stupid or wrong, it was held against all of us. Votes: 3

The Negro does not want love. He wants justice . . . I believe it would be better for the Negro's soul to be seared with hate than dwarfed by self-abasement. Votes: 3

[Martin Luther] King was one of the two young ministers - and you know how directly oriented the Negro community still is towards the minister as the leader. Votes: 3

I never cease to wonder at the amazing presumption of much of white society, assuming that they have the right to bargain with the Negro for his freedom. Votes: 3

For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost always meant "never." Votes: 3

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States. Votes: 3

Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the great Negro leader to escape from slavery. Votes: 3

One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them. Votes: 3

On the track, you`re Tommie Smith, the fastest man in the world, but once you`re in the dressing rooms, you are nothing more than a dirty Negro. Votes: 3

We've gone through the names—Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that's an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who determines what is black? Votes: 3

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things. Votes: 3

Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his. Votes: 3

The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant. Votes: 3

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

It is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked, handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of respect, recognition, or protection from the Government. Votes: 3

Stop using the word 'Negro.' The word is a misnomer from every point of view. It does not represent a country or anything else ... I am an African-American. Votes: 3

Making love to a Negro isn't frightening; sleeping with him is. Sleep is complete surrender. It's more than nude; it's naked. Anything can happen during the night, when reason sleeps. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man. Votes: 3

Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation. Votes: 3

The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him. Votes: 3

In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life. Votes: 3

If that Negro is faithful all his days, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get a celestial resurrection. Votes: 3

Negro' can refer to anyone with dark hair as well as dark skin, and I've been used to the word being used in Spanish in this way all my life. Votes: 3

I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.' Votes: 3

The vogue of the New Negro . . . had all of the character of a public relations promotion. The Negro had to be "sold" to the public in terms they could understand. Votes: 3

Integration is the method toward obtaining that goal. And what he Negro leader has done is gotten himself wrapped up in the method and has forgotten what the goal is. Votes: 3

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. Votes: 3

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. Votes: 3

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid marveled at the electability of Barack Obama because, unlike previous black candidates, Mr. Obama was 'light-skinned' and lacked a 'Negro dialect.' Votes: 3

Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force. Votes: 3

Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought a book by a Negro writer? Votes: 3

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life. Votes: 3

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro. Votes: 3

If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races. Votes: 3

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto. Votes: 3

As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that. Votes: 3

It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro ghetto and the so-called Negro slum, he's already separate. Votes: 3

A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared. Votes: 3

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth. Votes: 3

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else. Votes: 3

But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night? Votes: 3

When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be. Votes: 3

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form. Votes: 3

The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful. Votes: 3

[James] Baldwin said the real question is not when there will be the first Negro president in this country. The important question is what country he's going to be the president of. Votes: 3

One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunde Votes: 3

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together. Votes: 3

Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt. Votes: 3

I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed to all efforts to put down free speech, whatever the excuse. Votes: 3

One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strenth alone keeps it from being torn asunder. Votes: 3

Unsoundness in a slave, as well as in a horse, detracts materially from his value. If no warranty is given, a close examination is a matter of particular importance to the Negro jockey. Votes: 3

The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination. Votes: 3

The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build. Votes: 3

The Negro neighborhood, which is inferior, is begging for a chance to - integrate itself into that which is - is superior, which is not going to happen. It's going to cause trouble. Votes: 3

If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own. Votes: 3

I was born black, I attended all Negro schools including college, I grew up in the segregated South during Jim Crow. If anybody knows a racist, I do. Pat Buchanan ain't no racist. Votes: 3

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story. Votes: 3

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter. Votes: 3

To the great majority of white Americans, the Negro problem has distinctly negative connotations. It suggests something difficult to settle and equally difficult to leave alone. It is embarrassing. It makes for moral uneasiness. Votes: 3

Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience. Votes: 3

Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts] acted, striding around as if they were wearing top hats and cutaways. Votes: 3

It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my people as I know it, passionately and dispassionately as Brueghel. Votes: 3

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. Votes: 3

[Negro] should realize that he is living in a war zone, and he is at war with an enemy that is as vicious and criminal and inhuman as any war-making country has ever been. Votes: 3

The sky is dark. But to understand something is to give light. Those who deny liberty to the slaves may have white skins, but their consciences are blacker than the skin of the Negro. Votes: 3

It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things. Votes: 3

It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.' Votes: 3

The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures. Votes: 3

Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace. Votes: 3

The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again. Votes: 3

I always wanted to eat with a Negro," Grandma said. Yeah, well I always wanted to eat with a boney- assed old white woman," Lula said. "So I guess this works out good. Votes: 3

I am not opposed to the white race as charged by my enemies. I have no time to hate any one. All my time is devoted to the up-building and development of the Negro Race. Votes: 3

I read every one of the books on the shelf marked American Negro Literature. I became a nationalist, a colour nationalist, through the writings of men and women who lived a world away from me. Votes: 3

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity. Votes: 3

All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive. Votes: 3

Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated. Votes: 3

When a black Jacksonian looks about his home community, he sees a city of over 150,000, of which 40% is Negro, in which there is not a single Negro policeman or policewoman, school crossing guard, or fireman. Votes: 3

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible. Votes: 3

It has been nine years since the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated schools, yet less than ten per cent of the Negro students in the South are in integrated schools. That isn't integration, that's tokenism! Votes: 3

The background of the Negro culture is voodoo and magic; and the purposes the magic are control and power over God, man, nature and society. Voodoo and magic was the religion and life of America's Negro. Votes: 3

In his book The Soul of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois writes about always feeling "his twoness-- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; to warring ideals in one dark body. Votes: 3

The Negro and all things negroid had become a fad, and Harlem had become a shrine to which feverish pilgrimages were in order . . . Seventh Avenue was the gorge into which Harlem cliff dwellers crowded to promenade. Votes: 3

Cannot the nation that has absorbed ten million foreigners into its political life without catastrophe absorb ten million Negro Americans into that same political life at less cost than their unjust and illegal exclusion will involve? Votes: 3

I said, "If I was a Negro girl-" He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. "We can't think of changing our skin," he said. "Change the world-that's how we gotta think." Votes: 3

When the Negro learns what manner of man he is spiritually, he will wake up all over. He will stop playing white even on the stage. He will rise in the majesty of his own soul. Votes: 3

So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God. Votes: 3

In the Negro Leagues, we'd play three games a day on the weekends. Then we'd ride the bus and travel to play the next day someplace else. You'd hang your shirt out the bus window to dry. Votes: 3

I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted sense of liberation. It was not the Negro who became free, but I. Votes: 3

In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the economic debasement of the Negro at times almost to the point of starvation. Votes: 3

Negro producers, Negro distributors, Negro consumers! The world of Negroes can be self contained. We desire earnestly to deal with the rest of the world, but if the rest of the world desire not, we seek not Votes: 3

The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none, in the mass of Negroes but is very much concerned about the individual. Votes: 3

Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South. Votes: 3

I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief. Votes: 3

If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas. Votes: 3

It makes you feel good, man, makes you forget all the bad things that happen to a Negro. It makes you feel wanted, and when you're with another tea smoker, it makes you feel a special kinship. Votes: 3

People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system; they destroy the system... The Negro revolution is no revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them... Votes: 3

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior. Votes: 3

It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the time he wins them, they are no longer little things: they are miracles. Votes: 3

Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved by color, but by the brain, by education, by willpower, by moral courage. Votes: 3

When the South has trouble with its Negroes when the Negroes refuse to remain in their "place" it blames "outside agitators" and "Northern interference." When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin. Votes: 3

It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few Negroes in the white schools at Little Rock and another dozen places in the South. Votes: 3

To have built up a new organization, which was not purely political, among Negroes in America was a wonderful feat, for the Negro politician does not allow any other kind of organization within his race to thrive. Votes: 3

Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways. Votes: 3

I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And a movie doesn't have to be about race just because there's a Negro in it. Votes: 3

The privileged position of whiteness doesn't allow for someone with one drop of Negro blood to be considered white, which allows whiteness to be a fairly pure category while blackness has to absorb an expansive reality of representation. Votes: 3

You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying. Votes: 3

Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt and enmeshed in evil that there is no possibility of salvation from within. Votes: 3

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, the ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm, big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior. Votes: 3

Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, or Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes. Votes: 3

We must control the politics and the politicians of our community. They must no longer take orders from outside forces. We will organize, and sweep out of office all Negro politicians who are puppets for the outside forces. Votes: 3

I knew from experience at the Negro Ensemble Company that it wasn't until there was a place controlled by black artists... that Pulitzer Prize-winning work like 'Ceremonies in Dark Old Men' and 'A Soldier's Play' came to fruition. Votes: 3

[Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and if anyone thinks you are a Negro he is mistaken, because you merely look like one. Votes: 3

The World's Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and obedient. They thought of it as a giant slave, an untiring steel Negro, controlled by Reason in a world of infinite resources. Votes: 3

Only the BLACK WOMAN can say 'when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.' Votes: 3

I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started. Votes: 3

Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it. Votes: 3

I was branded a Negro in the States and had to act accordingly. They wouldn't even give me a chance in the big leagues because I was a Negro, yet they accepted every other nationality under the sun. Votes: 3

To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend that he doesn't have a natural instinct for rhythm and for singing and dancing. Votes: 3

Instead of the Negro leaders having the black man begging for a chance to - to dine in white restaurants, the Negro leader should be showing the black man how to do something to strengthen his own economy. Votes: 3

You have, you can only answer it this way: by turning it around. Can the negro - who is the victim of the system - escape the collective stigma that is placed upon all Negroes in this country? Votes: 3

People are taking it for granted that [the Negro] ought not to work with his head. And it is so easy for these people among whom we are living to believe this; it flatters and satisfies their self-complacency. Votes: 3

Soon now, as the Negro awakens a little more and sees the vise that he's in, sees the bag that he's in, sees the real game that he's in, then the Negro's going to develop a new tactic. Votes: 3

For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being an 'Old Negro', disassociating oneself from the symbols and legacy of slavery - being urbane, assertive militant. Votes: 3

[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for the best things regardless of their belief or disbelief in unimportant dogmas and ancient and outworn creeds. Votes: 3

Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or European, the MAN pre-eminently so called, below him appear the Negro and the Indian. Votes: 3

Opens up a whole new view of Beckett. The strong mutual attraction between Beckett and Cunard may help explain the leftist political views he expressed both in these superb and long-neglected translations for Negro and elsewhere in his work. Votes: 3

And it is to rock the soul and lead the person to immorality, corruption - to forget their prayers, to forget their God. And thus the world has partaken of the spirit of the Negro race, accepting their ways. Votes: 3

...The straitjackets of race prejudice and discrimination do not wear only southern labels. The subtle, psychological technique of the North has approached in its ugliness and victimization of the Negro the outright terror and open brutality of the South. Votes: 3

Any group, any group that can't work with all other groups, if they are genuinely interested in solving the problems of the Negro collectively why, I don't think that that group is really sincerely motivated toward reaching a solution. Votes: 3

Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this? Votes: 3

I'm a field Negro. The masses are the field Negroes. When they see this man's house on fire, you don't hear these little Negroes talking about 'our government is in trouble'. They say, 'The government is in trouble.' Votes: 3

Thank God that at least in one place, all men are equal: in the church of God. I do not consider it any degradation to kneel side by side with a Negro in the house of our Heavenly Father. Votes: 3

Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud. Votes: 3

Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this. Votes: 3

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples. Votes: 3

Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw. Votes: 3

The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely sees in that ordeal something to approve or condemn fails to understand the evolution of the human race. Votes: 3

In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system of intimidation came into vogue; the Negro was not only whipped and scourged; he was killed. Votes: 3

Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch closer to the truth. Bit by bit we crept along. As if that thing we believed to be approaching actually existed. Votes: 3

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. ... All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! ... Your interference is doing him positive injury. Votes: 3

Introducing someone as a "Negro poet with a University degree" or again, quite simply, the expression, "a great black poet." These ready-made phrases, which seem in a common-sense way to fill a need-or have a hidden subtlety, a permanent rub. Votes: 3

It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more. Votes: 3

How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed; that the Negro, who has exemplified the humanities in his very existence, is being rewarded with inhumanity. Votes: 3

I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that some common bond makes the people of all lands take to Negro songs as their own. Votes: 3

When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith. Votes: 3

The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty . Votes: 3

Everybody has asked the question . . . 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! Votes: 3

Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it, because it has assuaged a dim guilt and testified to the intrinsic superiority of white people. Votes: 3

Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the Negro, the coalition of Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans that seek to dominate the Congress. Votes: 3

It is very discouraging to be in a team with white athletes. On the track you are Tommie Smith, the fastest man in the world, but once you are in the dressing rooms you are nothing more than a dirty Negro. Votes: 3

(Harry Reid) was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama - a 'light-skinned' African American 'with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one. Votes: 3

One of the most beautiful things that recruited me to join the LaRouche movement is its emphasis on Classical singing and composition, especially with the Negro Spirituals, adding a new depth of profundity to songs I had sang while growing up. Votes: 3

How can a Negro say America is his nation? He was brought here in chains; he was put in slavery an worked like a mule for three hundred years; he was separated from his land, his culture, his God, his language! Votes: 3

In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors. Votes: 3

The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that we ought to call what we were doing 'Negro music'. But it's too late for that now. Votes: 3

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response? Votes: 3

There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development. The Negro of America is saying he's determined to be free and he is militant enough to stand up. Votes: 3

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not ent Votes: 3

Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is no pure Negro dance and owes its best qualities to the unusual dance talents of the Spaniards. Votes: 3

I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than any previous Governor, and I think you can find Negro leaders in the State who will attest to this fact Votes: 3

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation. Votes: 3

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'. Votes: 3

As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness. Votes: 3

I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than any previous Governor, and I think you can find Negro leaders in the State who will attest to this fact. Votes: 3

Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? Votes: 3

The Negro wants to be everything but himself... He wants to integrate with the white man, but he cannot integrate with himself or with his own kind. The Negro wants to lose his identity because he does not know his own identity. Votes: 3

It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts. Votes: 3

Why can't the black man have a God? What's so wrong when a black man says his God will protect him form his white foe? If Jehovah can slay Philistines for the Jews, why can't Allah slay crackers for the so-called Negro? Votes: 3

The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that when I am abroad I speak out against the injustices against the Negro people of this land. Votes: 3

When I was born, I was colored. I soon became a Negro. Not long after that I was black. Most recently I was African-American. It seems we're on a roll here. But I am still first and foremost in search of freedom. Votes: 3

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. Votes: 3

It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life. Votes: 3

I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must be spent in improving standards which lag behind to a large extent because of segregation,discrimination, and the legacy of slavery. Votes: 3

The traitor of other races is generally confined to the mediocre or irresponsible individual, but, unfortunately, the traitors among the Negro race are generally to be found among the men with the highest place in education and society, the fellows who call themselves leaders. Votes: 3

It's like the Negro in America seeing the white man win all the time.He's a professional gambler; he has all the cards and the odds stacked on his side, and he has always dealt to our people from the bottom of the deck. Votes: 3

But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come. Votes: 3

I am a colored woman or a Negro woman. Either one is OK. People dislike those words now. Today these use this term African American. It wouldn't occur to me to use that. I prefer to think of myself as an American, that's all! Votes: 3

No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse. Votes: 3

A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom. ... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve the cause of freedom - his own freedom, his people's freedom, and his country's freedom. Votes: 3

It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a purely American problem. Rather, we are today seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the exploiter. Votes: 3

For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro. Votes: 3

It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham.... The greatest blasphemy of the whole ugly process was that the white man ended up making God his partner in the exploitation of the Negro. Votes: 3

Racial rhetoric has been entwined with government from the start, all the way back to when the enemy was not Obamacare but the Grand Army of the Republic (and further in the past than that: Thomas Jefferson, after all, was derided as 'the Negro President'). Votes: 3

I'm inclined to believe that most Negro leaders, professional Negroes are professional Negroes. Being a Negro is their professional, and being a profe - a leader is their profession. And usually they say exactly what the white man wants - wants to hear them say. Votes: 3

If the Negro knows enough to pay taxes to support the government, he knows enough to vote; taxation and representation should go together. If he knows enough to shoulder a musket and fight for the flag, fight for the government, he knows enough to vote. Votes: 3

All peoples are struggling to blast a way through the industrial monopoly of races and nations, but the Negro as a whole has failed to grasp its true significance and seems to delight in filling only that place created for him by the white man. Votes: 3

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.' Votes: 3

Why must I run against a Negro? We have had enough of Negroes running against and fighting with each other. The better bet is that we would put a Muslim candidate in the field against a devil, somebody who is against all we stand for. Votes: 3

I don't think that I or any other Negro, as an American citizen, should have to ask for anything that is rightfully his. We are demanding that we just be given the things that are rightfully ours and that we're not looking for anything else. Votes: 3

I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population. Votes: 3

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim. Votes: 3

Latinos outnumber Black people now. I'm not too happy about it. Because it's only a matter of time before we lose our month. Soon as they figure it out, they're going to have Latino History Month. All we're going to have is Cinco de Negro. Votes: 3

But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group. Votes: 3

I have come to see more and more that one of the most decisive steps that the Negro can take is that little walk to the voting booth. That is an important step. We've got to gain the ballot, and through that gain, political power. Votes: 3

I remember one thing that marred this time for me; the movie "Gone with the Wind." When it played in Mason [MI], I was the only Negro in the theater, and when Butterfly McQueen went into her act, I felt like crawling under the rug. Votes: 3

Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority. Votes: 3

It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class. Votes: 3

The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness. Votes: 3

If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed. Votes: 3

I think that we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard. And, what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the economic plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. Votes: 3

There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade - a far more infamous practice than slavery in the ancient world - was initiated, carried on and defended by Christian men in Christian countries. Votes: 3

The Negro problem, like all other political problems, is fundamentally a moral issue. This is realism, not idealism. Those of my colleagues who believe that they are particularly 'hard boiled' because they overlook the fact that human beings are struggling for their consciences are simply unrealistic. Votes: 3

If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who's coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help. Votes: 3

The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and following the ignorant Negro preachers, we have thought that it was godlike to turn the other cheek to the brute that was brutalizing us. Votes: 3

When the Negro finds the courage to be free, he faces dogs and guns and clubs and fire hoses totally unafraid, and the white men with those dogs, guns, clubs and fire hoses see that the Negro they have traditionally called "boy" has become a man. Votes: 3

[W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro is about to sing. So often the request has seemed to savor of the feeling that we could do this and this alone. Votes: 3

So the Negro race has continued, and today is the day of the Negro as far as the world is concerned. They have influenced the generations of time; they have mixed their blood with many peoples, until there are many peoples not able to hold the priesthood. Votes: 3

My mother introduced me to more academic-minded writers, Cornel West and Skip Gates. In her library, I came across, when I was very young, Harold Cruse's 'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,' which is like a bible of Negro intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Amiri Baraka. Votes: 3

The ‘black metallers' will probably continue to ‘get loaded,' ‘get high,' and in all other manners too behave like the stereotypical Negro; they will probably continue to get foreign tribal tattoos, dress, walk, talk, look and act like homosexuals, and so forth. Votes: 3

America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people, troubles will be coming from within and without. America cannot smile away their Negro problem nor Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are cosmic laws. Votes: 3

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition. Votes: 3

The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this country is his home. He wants to do his part to help make his city, state, and nation a better place for everyone, regardless of color and race. Votes: 3

This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America - this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible. Votes: 3

It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want to be white," hidden in the aspirations of his people, to "Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!" Votes: 3

The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality, integrated education or his whole drive for freedom will be undermined by the absence of a most vital and indispensable element - learning. Votes: 3

The severest charge that can be brought against the Christian education of the Negro in the South during the last thirty years is the reckless way in which sap-headed young fellows, without ability, and, in some cases, without character, have been urged and pushed into the ministry. Votes: 3

A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom. Votes: 3

Why should not Africa give to the world its Black Rockefeller, Rothschild and Henry Ford? Now is the opportunity. Now is the chance for every Negro to make every effort toward a commercial, industrial standard that will make us comparable with the successful business men of other races. Votes: 3

I might add how in the world can you say, or can anyone say, that it will dignify the American Negro to beg in or wade [?] in or plead in when the people in Hungary didn't beg in? They were freedom fighters. And they fought for their freedom. Votes: 3

When the U.S. Government shows a proper appreciation of the services of the Negro who has never failed it in every crisis of its history to do his whole duty, to shed his blood freely in its behalf . . . then, and not till then, will I be heard. Votes: 3

I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South. Votes: 3

You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent.If one would, didn't want to deal with the moral questions, it would just be impractical for the Negro to talk about making his struggle a violent one. Votes: 3

I am not merely satisfied in making money for myself, for I am endeavoring to provide employment for hundreds of women of my race. ... I want to say to every Negro woman present, don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them! Votes: 3

They [Theodore White and Lou Harris] took turns weeping, and finally concluded that Rockefeller got the votes of everyone in California who is a Negro, a Jew, a Mexican, and a college graduate, while Goldwater got the votes of every millionaire. Which certainly makes California the land of opportunity. Votes: 3

The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious. Votes: 3

You do not preach and encourage hatred for the Negro and hope to restrict it to that field. It is an old, old story. It is one repeated over and over again in history. When the wolves of hate are loosed on one people, then no one is safe. Votes: 3

Are you looking for a Negro who won't fight back? Votes: 2

Cuando no tengo rojo, pongo negro Votes: 0

"...light-skinned," and with "no negro dialect." Votes: 0

La realidad es más real en blanco y negro Votes: 0

La vida es un arco iris que incluye el negro. Votes: 0

I think that the negro should reserve the right to execute. Votes: 0

Normalmente la inspiración divina llega cuando el horizonte es más negro Votes: 0

Para el hombre negro existe sólo un destino. Y es blanco Votes: 0

¿Qué importa si el gato es blanco o negro, con tal que cace ratones? Votes: 0

Nunca convencerás a un ratón de que un gato negro trae buena suerte. Votes: 0

¿Qué importa si el gato es blanco o negro, con tal de que cace ratones? Votes: 0

¿Que importa que el gato sea blanco o negro con tal de que cace ratones?. Votes: 0

¿Qué importa que el gato sea blanco o negro con tal de que cace ratones?. Votes: 0

I believe when a negro church is bombed, that a white church should be bombed. Votes: 0

El cliente puede elegir el auto del color que quiera, siempre y cuando sea negro Votes: 0

El cliente puede comprar un coche del color que desee, siempre y cuando sea negro. Votes: 0

The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths Votes: 0

A black President? Now come on y'all, we got Clinton, that's close. He got negro tendencies. Votes: 0

Most of these other negro leaders who are supposedly integrationists aren't that intelligent [like Reverend Galamison]. Votes: 0

no case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court. Votes: 0

Observa todo lo blanco que hay en torno tuyo, pero recuerda todo lo negro que existe Votes: 0

Observa todo lo blanco que hay en torno tuyo, pero recuerda todo lo negro que existe. Votes: 0

Los africanos somos tan humanos como los blancos porque el color negro es un don de Dios Votes: 0

Una mañana, uno de nosotros se quedó sin el negro, y fue el nacimiento del impresionismo Votes: 0

I don't consciously beat the drums for any cause, not even the negro in the United States. Votes: 0

I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours. Votes: 0

Tenía que demostrar que se podía ser negro de otra manera y hacérselo ver a todo el mundo Votes: 0

No estoy del lado del hombre blanco, tampoco del lado del hombre negro, estoy del lado de Dios Votes: 0

Se habia arreglado para la boda, llevando un esmoquin negro a la medida y su mejor sonrisa depravada Votes: 0

El negro vive en una isla solitaria de pobreza en medio de un inmenso océano de prosperidad material Votes: 0

Me pinto el cabello de negro para los encuentros amorosos, y de blanco para las reuniones de negocios Votes: 0

El horizonte es negro, la tempestad amenaza; trabajemos. Este es el único remedio para el mal del siglo. Votes: 0

This would be a grand land if only every Irishman would kill a negro, and be hanged for it. Votes: 0

..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship. Votes: 0

Most of the negro leaders who get the support of the power structure end up being against [Reverend] Galamison. Votes: 0

El horizonte es negro, la tempestad amenaza; trabajemos. Este es el único remedio para el mal del siglo Votes: 0

Detesto el racismo, porque lo veo como algo barbárico, ya venga de un hombre negro o un hombre blanco Votes: 0

En una bandada de blancas palomas, un cuervo negro añade más belleza incluso que el candor de un cisne. Votes: 0

I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values. Votes: 0

If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET. Votes: 0

En una bandada de blancas palomas, un cuervo negro añade más belleza incluso que el candor de un cisne Votes: 0

The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him. Votes: 0

Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son". Votes: 0

There are no negro problems, or Polish problems, or Jewish problems, or Greek problems, or women's problems, there are HUMAN PROBLEMS". Votes: 0

My mother, religious-negro, proud of having waded through a storm, is, very obviously a sturdy bridge that I have crossed over on. Votes: 0

I think that the problem of the American negro goes beyond the principle of any organization whether it's a religious, political, or otherwise. Votes: 0

The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced. Votes: 0

Soy un americano negro, me siento orgulloso de mi raza. Estoy orgulloso de quien soy. Tengo un montón de orgullo y dignidad Votes: 0

El norteamericano blanco relega al negro a la condición de limpiabotas y deduce de ello que sólo sirve para limpiar botas Votes: 0

Cuando conozco a alguien no me importa si es blanco, negro, judío o musulmán. Me basta con saber que es un ser humano. Votes: 0

El norteamericano blanco relega al negro a la condición de limpiabotas y deduce de ello que sólo sirve para limpiar botas. Votes: 0

The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy. Votes: 0

La literatura no puede reflejar todo lo negro de la vida. La razón principal es que la literatura escoge y la vida no. Votes: 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. Votes: 0

Resulta impensable que Dios, que es un ser muy sabio, haya puesto un alma, y sobre todo un alma buena, en un cuerpo enteramente negro Votes: 0

Debemos estar siempre dispuestos a creer que lo que nos parece blanco es en realidad negro, si la jerarquía de la Iglesia así lo decide Votes: 0

Most of the, or I should say many of the negro leaders actually suffer themselves from an inferiority complex even though they say they don't. Votes: 0

¿Quién os ha dicho que el blanco es mejor que el negro? La vaca negra y la vaca blanca dan la misma leche de color blanco Votes: 0

Al igual entre las hojas del gran álamo negro, aunque no sea otra cosa que su copa, cualquier aire la agita y levanta como una pluma Votes: 0

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution Votes: 0

Once negro community recognize it as such, they can adopt the same measures against the community that harbors the criminals who are responsible for this activity. Votes: 0

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party. Votes: 0

La teología nunca ha sido de gran ayuda, es como buscar, a medianoche y en un sótano oscuro, a un gato negro que no está ahí. Votes: 0

Any time a negro community lives under fear that its churches are going to be bombed, then they have to realize they're living in a war zone. Votes: 0

Para estar bien seguros, debemos sostener lo siguiente: lo que ante mis ojos aparece como blanco, debo considerarlo negro, si la jerarquía de la Iglesia lo considera así Votes: 0

All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy. Votes: 0

Anytime there's a fire in a negro community and it's burning out of control, you send any one of them, send Whitney Young in to put it out. Votes: 0

Mi padre era un mestizo, su padre era un negro y su abuelo un mono; parece que mi familia dio comienzo en el mismo punto que la vuestra Votes: 0

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too? Votes: 0

Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition. Votes: 0

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving. Votes: 0

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes. Votes: 0

A piece of cloth that is called "linen" has more validity than calling you and me "black" or "negro." "Cotton" has more validity as cotton than yours and my being "black." Votes: 0

Mr. Douglass talks about the wrongs of the negro; but with all the outrages that he to-day suffers, he would not exchange his sexand take the place of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Votes: 0

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro? Votes: 0

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro? Votes: 0

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live. Votes: 0

Taking it all in all and after all, negro life in Washington is a promise rather than a fulfillment. But it is worthy of note for the really excellent things which are promised Votes: 0

I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone. Votes: 0

I think you'll find also that if the negro ever realizes that he should begin to fight for real for his freedom, there are many whites who will fight on his side with him. Votes: 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. Votes: 0

The secular humanist, although he would never dream of committing the social faux pas of calling a black man a negro, feels perfectly free to castigate Christians and their leaders in any way he likes. Votes: 0