Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
African Americans Quotes
Negroes – Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day – They change their mind.
All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
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.
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.
