Quotes About Negro

In Ellington, we hear the story of the Negro, maybe the most American of Americans.

Cómo construir un país en semejantes condiciones de total ignorancia y de rencor acumulado en contra de los "gachupines" que habían despojado de cuanto se podía al indio, al mulato y al negro?

Detroit can do in a week for the white man what the South couldn't do in a hundred years to the Negro.

Now," said Sir Nathaniel, anxious to restore peace, "have you found out anything yet regarding the negro?  I am anxious to be posted regarding him.  I fear there will be, or may be, grave trouble with him.

Negro slavery was specifically mentioned, and was given permanence; there never could be a law "denying or impairing the right of property in Negro slaves," and slavery was fully protected in territories then or later acquired.

We did not notice the jeering glances of the passengers, a lubber-like assembly, who marvelled that two fellow beings should be so companionable; as though a white man were anything more dignified than a white-washed negro.

he makes the case that "the move from Africa to America was a vast increase of freedom for the Negro, materially and spiritually as well as personally."61

A maniac kills for his sense of "well-being." Rarely do we cure or re-educate the maniac. He dies, gets killed, or we put him in an asylum. The racists…have nothing to live for if their world crumbles...Wipe out the system of Negro oppression...and you automatically destroy the racist's sense of well-being.

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.

It seemed very hard, when his father fought to protect the Union and our flag, and yet his boy was denied, under this same flag, a berth to carry him home to die, because he was a negro.

July 24th, 1833.—The Beagle sailed from Maldonado, and on August the 3rd she arrived off the mouth of the Rio Negro.

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.

One of the most beautiful things that recruited me to join the LaRouche movement is its emphasis on Classical singing and composition, especially with the Negro Spirituals, adding a new depth of profundity to songs I had sang while growing up.

There was no point in trying to compensate for the crimes of the past, but "the nearest approach to justice to the negro for the past is to do him justice in the present."19 That meant integrating schools and ending legal barriers to employment and property ownership.

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

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.

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South. Northern and Western institutions, however, have had no time to deal with matters which concern the Negro especially. They must direct their attention to the problems of the majority of their constituents, and too often they have stimulated their prejudices by referring to the Negro as unworthy of consideration.

The lack of confidence of the Negro in himself and in his possibilities is what has kept him down. His mis-education has been a perfect success in this respect.

The so-called education of Negro college graduates leads them to throw away opportunities which they have and to go in quest of those which they do not find.

exploitation of the Negro through economic restriction and segregation the present system is sound and will doubtless continue until this gives place to the saner policy of actual interracial cooperation--not the present farce of racial manipulation in which the Negro is a figurehead.

He knitted his blond eyebrows. "You see how great the menace is? At this rate there will not be a Negro in the country in ten years, for you must remember that the rate is increasing every day as new sanitariums are opened.

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.

they were experimenting with narcoanalysis and found that Old Bull had seven separate personalities, each growing worse and worse on the way down, till finally he was a raving idiot and had to be restrained with chains. The top personality was an English lord, the bottom the idiot. Halfway he was an old Negro who stood in line, waiting with everyone else and said, Some's bastards, some's ain't, that's the score.

Any time a negro community lives under fear that its churches are going to be bombed, then they have to realize they're living in a war zone.