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I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.
— Woody Guthrie
Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.
— James A. Baldwin
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
I'd like a hamburger and a coke, please. / Sir, we don't serve negroes here. / Ma'am, I don't eat negroes. I'd like a hamburger and a coke.
— Joseph Lowery
Therefore, whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably,
— James Baldwin
The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars.
— John H. Reagan
I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.
— Langston Hughes
For above all, in behalf of an ailing world which sorely needs our defiance, may we, as Negroes or women, never accept the notion of - our place.
— Lorraine Hansberry
The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.
— W.E.B. Du Bois
They put the Negroes in the schools, and now they've driven God out.
— George Andrews
We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
I am principled against selling negroes, as you would do cattle at a market.
— George Washington
As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
— W.E.B. Du Bois
The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.
— Isaac D'Israeli
And rich white people were not so hard on Negroes; it was the poor whites who hated Negroes.
— Anonymous
These figures are black, yet they are not like negroes. I have never seen their like." "Let
— Robert E. Howard
Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
My father hated Negroes.
— Langston Hughes
But I dig Negroes. I dig them all the way.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
I did not lie awake at night worrying about the problems of Negroes.
— Robert F. Kennedy
I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.
— Nat King Cole
I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.
— Nat King Cole
of body, tall Negroes from Africa, small wizen-faced Jews,
— Eleanore M. Jewett
We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
You white folks have long been eating the white meat of the chicken. We Negroes are now ready for some of the white meat instead of the dark meat.
— Mary McLeod Bethune
We'll start signing Negroes when the Harlem Globetrotters start signing whites.
— George Preston Marshall
I'd heard of really bad things Klan folks did to Negroes. Mean, hateful, deadly things. I didn't know they were hateful toward white folks too.
— Clare Vanderpool
One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.
— Carter G. Woodson
Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, /May be refin'd and join th' angelic train.
— Phillis Wheatley
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
— Ethel Waters
The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people.
— Immanuel Kant
She asked why I was so black. I asked why she was so white. She said she was born that way. Same here, I replied.
— Lawrence Hill
As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.
— James Weldon Johnson
I was imprisoned in Missouri in 1854 for preaching the gospel to Negroes, though I was never subjected to violence.
— Hiram Rhodes Revels
Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankindMost marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers.
— Harry J. Anslinger
Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
— Carter G. Woodson
A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent ... They are being conscripted.
— John A. Logan
Some of the American whites, moreover, are just as far behind in this respect as are the Negroes who have had less opportunity to learn better.
— Carter G. Woodson
Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of the nation.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
— W.E.B. Du Bois
Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice.
— Harry J. Anslinger
You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.
— Abraham Lincoln
Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.
— Ethel Waters
That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future.
— Lawrence Hill
I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses.
— Malcolm X
