I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to the kitchen when company comes But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong.
African Americans Quotes
Everything we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa. I’ve been a slave: Caesar told me to keep his door-steps clean. I brushed the boots of Washington. I’ve been a worker: Under my hand the pyramids arose. I made mortar for the Woolworth building. I’ve been a […]
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not […]
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his (or her) worth.
Discrimination in education is symbolic of all the more drastic discrimination in which Negroes suffer. In the American life, the equal protection clause in the Fourteenth Amendment furnishes the key to ending separate schools.
From my background, I gained my regulating Christian ideals. From Gandhi I learned my operational technique.
There’s something wrong with the system. It’s designed for you not to make it. And if you make it, it’s designed for you not to keep it.
