My Jewish brothers and sisters had Hitler, who was a madman, who filmed everything. They have documents, but my people don’t have documents. We don’t have film. We have spoken word.
Black Quotes
A tribute to our people’s commitment to peaceful change is the fact that the only South Africans to win the Nobel Peace Prize are both black. Our people are peace-loving to a fault.
Finally the captain said, “Come here, nigger.” I walked directly to him. “What can I do for you?” I asked. “Nigger,” he said menacingly, “you’re supposed to be scared when you come in here!” – “I am fortified by truth, justice and Christ,” I said. “There is no need for me to fear.” He was […]
The haughty American nation – makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact he is a bootblack.
Black families have always talked openly about white ancestors and relatives. In hotbeds of race-mixing like New Orleans or Charleston, S.C., black and white branches of a family sometimes lived so close at hand that they ran into one another on the street, and black children were warned that their pale relatives could react violently […]
There’s not enough troops in the Army… to force the Southern people to… admit the Negro race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes and into our churches.
You don’t think I care if a Negro comes into a drugstore to have a coke, do you?
There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs – partly because […]
White, adj. and not Black.
The black man who cannot let love and sympathy go out to the white man is but half free. The white man who retards his own development by opposing the black man is but half free.
