Top Negro Quotes
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.
Carter G. Woodson
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
If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.
Sam Phillips
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.
Ida B. Wells
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
James Weldon Johnson 
George Washington Carver 
Malcolm X 
Maya Angelou 
Marcus Garvey 
Langston Hughes All Negro Quotes
A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.
Dorothy Height 
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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.
Carter G. Woodson
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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.
Ida B. Wells
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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.
Paul Robeson
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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.
Paul Robeson
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Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along.
Gordon Parks
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Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?
Mahalia Jackson
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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.
Henry Ossawa Tanner
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Popular Negro Authors
Ronald ReaganMartin Luther King, Jr.Susan SontagJames A. BaldwinMaya AngelouWillie StargellSammy Davis, Jr.Ellsworth HuntingtonMahalia JacksonCarter G. WoodsonStanley CrouchJames Weldon JohnsonC. L. R. JamesNat King ColeEmanuel Celler
Malcolm XSusan B. AnthonyIda B. WellsAlbert Bushnell HartPaul RobesonMarcus GarveyHarriet Ann JacobsJohn Sergeant WiseRobert KennedyHelen Hunt JacksonDick GregoryGordon ParksGeorge Washington CarverKnute NelsonW. E. B. Du Bois
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