Negro Quotes - page 4

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. (Ida B. Wells-Barnett)
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. View quote
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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. View quote
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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. View quote
Albert Bushnell Hart
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. View quote
Albert Murray
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened. View quote
Archie Shepp
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. View quote
Burke Marshall
A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted. View quote
Dorothy Height
The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist. View quote
E. Franklin Frazier
The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale. View quote
Ellsworth Huntington
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. (Emanuel Celler)
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. View quote
Ethel Waters
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. View quote
Ferguson Jenkins
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. View quote
John Henninger Reagan
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. View quote
John Sergeant Wise
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. View quote
Mary McLeod Bethune
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. View quote
Medgar Evers
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 . View quote
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
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. View quote
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
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. View quote
Ray Stannard Baker
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. (Stanley Crouch)
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. View quote
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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. View quote
Samuel George Morton
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. View quote
Samuel George Morton
I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian. View quote
Willie Stargell