I am appalled that some people feel that the civil rights struggle is over because we have a 1964 civil rights bill and a voting rights bill. Over and over again people ask, What else do you want? They feel that everything is all right. Well let them look around at our big cities.
African Americans Quotes
I am an invisible man… I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste… for the poor of America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and corruption.
Our leader will not be a white man with a Black heart, nor a Black man with a white heart, but a Black man with a Black heart.
Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Without money or armies or political power, he (Booker T. Washington) carried into the midst of the deep South, historical perspective, economic, social, and spiritual insights, and with all a great human understanding. Where others hated, he sympathized; where others argued, he understood; where others forced, he taught.
The civil rights movement, owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln.
(Man) has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another’s flesh.
