Quotes About Race

Blacks can get into medical school with a lower grade ... If that's true, a Jew should be able to play basketball with a lower net.

Every man has a right to his own opinion. Every race has a right to its own action; therefore let no man persuade you against your will, let no other race influence you against your own.

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil rights.

Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice.

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

A man's world, but a white man's planet.

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

When I was perceived as a black man I became a threat to public safety. When I was dressed as myself, it was my safety that was threatened.

I know that I am a black man in a white world. . . I know that I never had it made.

I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.

The whole world is run on bluff. No race, no nation, no man has any divine right to take advantage of others. Why allow the other fellow to bluff you?

The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.

The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.

To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher.

The Complex of color...every colored man feels it sooner or later. It gets in the way of his dreams, of his education, of his marriage, of the rearing of his children.

Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.

The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness.

Because white men can't police their imaginations, black men are dying.