Tag - Negro Quotes

Discover the most impactful and inspirational quotes from the Negro Quotes category. Here, you’ll find a diverse collection of motivation, wisdom, love, laughter, or a deeper understanding of life, our curated selection of quotes has something for everyone. Perfect for fans and those looking for motivation, our collection of Negro Quotes will inspire and resonate with you.

Strom Thurmond

I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than any previous Governor, and I think you can find Negro leaders in the State who will attest to this fact.

– Strom Thurmond

Stephen Douglas

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?

– Stephen Douglas

Stanley Crouch

As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don’t deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.

– Stanley Crouch

Solomon Northup

Unsoundness in a slave, as well as in a horse, detracts materially from his value. If no warranty is given, a close examination is a matter of particular importance to the Negro jockey.

– Solomon Northup

Samuel George Morton

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.

– Samuel George Morton

Jr Sammy Davis

Would it be better if I’d married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?

– Sammy Davis, Jr

Jr Sammy Davis

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

– Sammy Davis, Jr

Sam Phillips

If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.

– Sam Phillips

Rosa Parks

I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.

– Rosa Parks

Rick Perlstein

Racial rhetoric has been entwined with government from the start, all the way back to when the enemy was not Obamacare but the Grand Army of the Republic (and further in the past than that: Thomas Jefferson, after all, was derided as ‘the Negro President’).

– Rick Perlstein

Ray Stannard Baker

The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.

– Ray Stannard Baker

Ray Stannard Baker

A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them.

– Ray Stannard Baker

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