It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others.
African Americans Quotes
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
(Bias against the Negro) is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers.
I find it strange that the most right-wing crazy loon running for president, the most right-wing crazy loon Supreme Court Justice and the most right-wing crazy loon on the radio all happen to be black. Alan Keyes, Clarence Thomas and Ken Hamblin.
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.
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.
