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«Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind»
Author: Langston Hughes (Essayist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: docile, meek, meekest, Negroes
«I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville (Historian, Political scientist) | Keywords: abolition, abolition of slavery, almost all, civil, civil rights, complaining, confess, deprived, deprived of, Enemy of the state, equals, freeman, freemen, Negroes, obliged, races, raised, revolt, show off, southern, Southern states, speedily, The Whites, warding, ward off, whites
«What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.»
Author: Jean Genet (Dramatist, Novelist) | Keywords: Black a, intensely, Negroes, white man
«I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office,»
Author: Abraham Lincoln (President) | About: Equality, Politics, Race, Social service | Keywords: Black race, bringing, equality, favor, juror, jurors, Negroes, office, qualifies, qualify, qualifying, races, The Social, The White, voters
«Subscribe to our noble society for providing the infant negroes in the West Indies with flannel waistcoats and moral pocket handkerchiefs.»
Author: Charles Dickens | Keywords: flannel, flannels, handkerchiefs, Indies, infant, Negroes, pocket-handkerchief, subscribe, subscribed, subscribe to, the Indies, waistcoat, waistcoats, West Indies
«When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because we have any sympathy for them or because we crave their blessings, but simply because we don't want them to be falling ill of smallpox»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken (Critic, Journalist) | Keywords: appropriate, crave, funds, horde, hordes, Negroes, public funds, smallpox, vaccinated, vaccinating
«The negroes more philosophy displayed, - / Used to it, no doubt, as eels are to be flayed.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: Eels, flay, flayed, flays, Negroes
«I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr. (Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader) | Keywords: American Dream, argue, bring forward, confidently, distinctions, distributed, distributes, Distributing, equality, equality of opportunity, In Living Color, Italians, Italian A, Jews, Land of Opportunity, luxuries, necessities, Negroes, privilege, realization, separateness, skin color, The Italian, unfulfilled, widely, widely distributed
«Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr. (Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader) | About: Discrimination | Keywords: discrimination, dominating, gnaws, hellhound, inferiority, moment of truth, Negroes, remind, waking
«It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr. (Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader) | About: Crime | Keywords: deplorable, derivative, Great White, incontestable, Negroes
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