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.
African Americans Quotes
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.
All I ask for the Negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.
I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man’s problem just to avoid violence.
I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races – I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white […]
If you think I’ll bleed nonviolently, you’ll be sticking me for the rest of my life. But, if I tell you I’ll fight back, there will be less blood. I’m for reciprocal bleeding.
