Negroes Quotes

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

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. - Burke Marshall

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased. - Ida B. Wells

Subscribe to our noble society for providing the infant negroes in the West Indies with flannel waistcoats and moral pocket handkerchiefs. - Charles Dickens

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes. - Alden Nowlan

Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination. - Carter G. Woodson

Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church. - Jesse Jackson

Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way. - Will M Cook