Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.
African Americans Quotes
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Without money or armies or political power, he (Booker T. Washington) carried into the midst of the deep South, historical perspective, economic, social, and spiritual insights, and with all a great human understanding. Where others hated, he sympathized; where others argued, he understood; where others forced, he taught.
The civil rights movement, owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln.
(Man) has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another’s flesh.
Just being a Negro doesn’t qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
In my judgment, the slogan ” black power” and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the United States over the period of the last several months.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
There has been a reevaluation of our slave philosophy that permitted us to be satisfied with the leftovers at the back door rather than demand a full serving at the family dinner table.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
