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.
African Americans Quotes
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.
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.
There has been a reevaluation of our slave philosophy that permitted us to be satisfied with the leftovers at the back door rather than demand a full serving at the family dinner table.
