An American, a Negro ... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged st...rength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is said that the Negro is ignorant. But why is he ignorant? It comes with ill grace from a man who has put out my eyes to make ...a parade of my blindness,--to reproach me for my poverty when he has wronged me of my money.... If he is poor, what has become of the money he has been earning for the last two hundred and fifty years? Years ago it was said cotton fights and cotton conquers for American slavery. The Negro helped build up that great cotton power in the South, and in the North his sigh was in the whir of its machinery, and his blood and tears upon the warp and woof of its manufactures.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends no...ne, in the mass of Negroes but is very much concerned about the individual.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whatever may be our just grievances in the southern states, it is fitting that we acknowledge that, considering their poverty and ...past relationship to the Negro race, they have done remarkably well for the cause of education among us. That the whole South should commit itself to the principle that the colored people have a right to be educated is an immense acquisition to the cause of popular education.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in Ameri...ca. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People in Stamps used to say that the whites in our town were so prejudiced that a Negro couldn't buy vanilla ice cream. Except on... July Fourth. Other days he had to be satisfied with chocolate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even bellig...erence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A famous conductor from Rio Fell in love with a lady called Cleo.... As she took down her panties, He said, "No andantes! I want it allegro con brio!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing that it shall be. It is a... war to found an empire on the negro in slavery, and shame on us if we do not make it a war to establish the negro in freedom--against whom the whole nation, North and South, East and West, in one mighty conspiracy, has combined from the beginning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »