Quotes of Negro - somelinesforyou

“ Woman is the Nigger of the World. ”

- John Lennon

“ If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man. ”

- Frederick Douglas

“ The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world, void of national bias, race, hate, and religious prejudice. There should be no indulgence in undue eulogy of the Negro… ”

- Merle Woo

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

- Dick Gregory

“ 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. ”

- Ferguson Jenkins

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

- Ralph Ellison

“ 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? ”

- Stephen Douglas

“ 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. ”

- George Washington Carver

“ To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. ”

- James A. Baldwin

“ 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. ”

- Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“ 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

“ 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

“ We said, Because if you don't give us two drivers by Monday morning, we're going to shut your bus company down. Oh, he was a boastful kind. He said, No Negroes want to stop riding my bus. ”

- Charles Phillips

“ 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. ”

- Paul Williams

“ 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. ”

- Sammy Davis Jr.

“ 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.

“ The original "crime" of "niggers" and lesbians is that they prefer themselves. ”

- Alice Walker

“ I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ The image of God cut in ebony. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ O black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How, in your darkness, did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre? ”

- James Weldon Johnson

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

- Charles Lamb

“ 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. ”

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

“ 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. ”

- Susan Sontag

“ If Negro freedom is taken away, or that of any minority group, the freedom of all the people is taken away. ”

- Paul Robeson

“ If you ask a Negro where he's been, he'll tell you where he's going. ”

- Black American Saying

“ 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. ”

- James Baldwin

“ 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. ”

- Mary McLeod Bethune

“ The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice. ”

- Henry Cox

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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