Quotes of: Negroes Keyword

One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.

Carter G. Woodson

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

Carter G. Woodson

I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses.

Malcolm X

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

Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.

Malcolm X

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.

Carter G. Woodson

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Henry Louis Gates

Jules: Shit Negro! That's all you had to say!

Pulp Fiction

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

Archie Shepp

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

Dorothy Height

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it, 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will rea...

Speeches and Writings, 1832-1858

If the Baron meets with a parcel of negro ships carrying whites into slavery to work upon their plantations in a cold climate, should we therefore imagine that he intends a reflection on the present traffic in human flesh? And that, if the negroes sh...

The Surprising Adventures Of Baron Munchausen

Our Negro problem, therefore, is not of the Negro's making. No group in our population is less responsible for its existence. But every group is responsible for its continuance.... Both races need to understand that their rights and duties are mutual...

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

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

William Christopher Handy

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.

Susan B. Anthony

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

Malcolm X

It was impossible to reason with a negro-that the only way to keep him in his place was to keep him under fear.

Henry Carter Stuart

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

Ethel Waters

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

E. Franklin Frazier

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.

Ray Dandridge