It was the police who tracked us as we fled the plantation. It was the police who took Rosa Parks off the bus in Montgomery, Ala. It was Police Chief “Bull” Connor who set dogs and fires hoses on black men, women and children in Birmingham, Alabama… I am well aware of the black criminal, […]
African Americans Quotes
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Everybody has asked the question… “What shall we do with the Negro?” I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they […]
Don’t let them break your spirit, we have picked too much cotton for that.
It is the strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually time is neutral. It can be used either destructively or constructively. I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have not used time much more effectively than the people […]
This is the modern paradox of Sin before which the Puritan stands open-mouthed and mute. A group, a nation, or a race commits murder and rape, steals and destroys, yet no individual is guilty, no one is to blame, no one can be punished. The black world squirms beneath the feet of the white in […]
I have supposed the black man, in his present state, might not be in body and mind equal to the white man; but it would be hazardous to affirm that, equally cultivated for a few generations, he would not become so.
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others.
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.
