Quotes with black

Quotes 201 till 220 of 302.

  • Alice Walker The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • Adam Clayton Powell The black man continues on his way. He plods wearily no longer - he is striding freedom road with the knowledge that if he hasn't got the world in a jug, at least he has the stopper in his hand.
    Adam Clayton Powell
    American politician and pastor (1908 - 1972)
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  • Bobby Seale The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Black Kettle The Cheyennes do not fight at all this side of the Arkansas, but north some young warriors were fired upon and then the fight began.
    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)
    Black Kettle
    Native Indian Cheyenne chief (1803 - 1868)
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  • Al Sharpton The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • James Baldwin The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bobby Seale The FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program would work hand-in-hand with police departments, literally planning attacks on Black Panther Party offices throughout the United States of America. They did this over a period of time.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Bobby Seale The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • James Baldwin The future is... black.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Branch Rickey The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • Emma Goldman The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Bell Hooks The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • H. Rap Brown The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
    H. Rap Brown
    American activist (1943 - )
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  • Augustus William Hare The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impression it receivest oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Arthur Laffer The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act. It is the guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities and the disenfranchised out of the mainstream is if you price their original services too high.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Malcolm X The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Ben Shapiro The Muslim world just doesn't believe that skin color is all that important. Obama may be half-black, but he's still all-Western, according to them. It doesn't matter whether you're black, white or green - if you're not a devotee of Muhammad, you don't matter.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Eldridge Cleaver The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.
    Soul on ice (1968)
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Bobby Fischer The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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