Blacks Quotes
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We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.
Yanis Varoufakis -
It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
Flip Wilson
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In the ’50s and ’60s there was segregation here in the Bay Area and all over the country. There was a curfew for young blacks my age in the Fillmore district where I lived. It was a disturbing thing. There were civil rights movements here in San Francisco. They would show on the national news the dogs being sicced on the marchers, being sprayed with the hoses, being beaten with the batons.
Emory Douglas -
Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.
Rand Paul -
The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.
Norman Podhoretz -
The ancestors of the Blacks, who today live mainly in Black Africa, were the first to invent mathematics, astronomy, the calendar, sciences in general, arts, religion, agriculture, social organisation, medicine, writing, technique, architecture
Cheikh Anta Diop -
All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not yet begun to be solved, because pointing at us token Blacks eases consciences of millions, and this is dreadfully wrong.
Leontyne Price -
I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
Arthur Ashe
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Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.
Maya Angelou -
Whites already know blacks are stupid, violent, destructive apelike creatures. That is why Whites move away from them - always.
Alex Linder -
Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
Ishmael Reed -
For no matter what the factual data were, all the books written about Blacks by their conquerors reflected the conquerors viewpoints. Nothing else should have been expected.
Chancellor Williams -
Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj African Blacks for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.
Al-Jahiz -
We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding the consequences of actions.
Al-Jahiz
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“The All Blacks that day looked like great prophets of doom.”
Bill McLaren -
I don't ask employers, for example, to like blacks or Jews or native people; I ask employers to hire the qualified members of thesegroups whether they likethem or not.
Alan Borovoy -
Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.
Ned Sublette -
The problem with that is there are very few Latinos, Blacks and women who will have the same experiences as a white 25 year old male who went to Stanford.
Kathryn Finney -
How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments about being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites? . . . How long until we white people will stop insisting that blacks exercise personal responsibility, build strong families, educate themselves enough to edit the Harvard Law Review, and work hard enough to become President of the United States, only to threaten to assassinate them when they do?
Andrew Manis