The word “wait” has been a tranquilizing Thalidomide, giving birth to an ill-formed infant of frustration. Only by following the cause of tender-heartedness can man matriculate into the university of eternal life. Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality, and it cannot be cured by the Vaseline of gradualism.
African Americans Quotes
The negro, no matter how much he is educated, must remain, as a race, in a condition of subservience; that he must remain the inferior of the stronger and more intelligent white man so long as he retains racial differentiation. Therefore, the effort to educate him has awakened in his mind ambitions and aspirations which, […]
Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
But the fact remains that the Southern whites have to deal with the actual Negroes before them, and not with a theoretical race of African kings. These actual Negroes show actual defects that are very real and very serious. The leaders of the race, engrossed by the almost unbearable injustices that it faces, are apt […]
We have now gotten the Negro the right to sit at the lunch counter. We must now get him the wherewithal to buy a hamburger.
That Negroes, in more than one way, are superior to most American whites is something that I have long believed. I pass over their gift for music (which is largely imaginary) and their greater dignity (which Dr. Eleanor R. Wembridge has described more eloquently than I could do it), and point to their better behavior […]
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
The hatred I still feel for Negroes is the hardest of all the old feelings to face or admit, and it is the most hidden and the most overlarded by the conscious attitudes into which I succeeded in willing myself. . . I know it from the insane rage that can stir in me at […]
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, colored men looking for loans and white men who “understand the Negro”.
