We have now gotten the Negro the right to sit at the lunch counter. We must now get him the wherewithal to buy a hamburger.
African Americans Quotes
That Negroes, in more than one way, are superior to most American whites is something that I have long believed. I pass over their gift for music (which is largely imaginary) and their greater dignity (which Dr. Eleanor R. Wembridge has described more eloquently than I could do it), and point to their better behavior […]
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
The hatred I still feel for Negroes is the hardest of all the old feelings to face or admit, and it is the most hidden and the most overlarded by the conscious attitudes into which I succeeded in willing myself. . . I know it from the insane rage that can stir in me at […]
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, colored men looking for loans and white men who “understand the Negro”.
We’ve got some difficult days ahead, but it doesn’t matter with me now. Because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life; longevity has its place. But I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me […]
The black man continues on his way. He plods wearily no longer – he is striding freedom road with the knowledge that if he hasn’t got the world in a jug, at least he has the stopper in his hand.
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing, […]
In one generation we have moved from denying a black man service at a lunch counter to elevating one to the highest military office in the nation, and to being a serious contender for the presidency. This is a magnificent country and I am proud to be one of its sons.
