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.
African Americans Quotes
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.
Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by its highest achievement. We have to turn that around.
We’re nonviolent with people who are non- violent with us. But we are not nonviolent with anyone who is violent with us.
“But white people act up too.” Yes, but Garth Brooks does not bring a “piece” to the Grammys, and Martin Scorsese does not get into ugly scuffles on the street. There is a fine line between playing the bad boy and becoming one, and in the “hip-hop community” too often violence jumps out of the […]
Now in the South we faced mobs, but it would be a couple of hundred, or even fifty or seventy-five. The violence in the South always came from a rabble element. But these were women and children and husbands and wives coming out of their homes becoming a mob (in Chicago) – and in some […]
Negroes – Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day – They change their mind.
