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Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.
Warren G. Harding1865–1923Speech at Birmingham, Alabama, published in the Birmingham Post (27 October 1921) quoted in Political Power in Birmingham, 1871-1921 (1977) by Carl V. Harris (1977) University of Tennessee Press, .
- Voting
We demand the fulfilment of the just claims of the productive classes by the state on the basis of race solidarity. To us state and race are one.
Adolf Hitler1889–1945Interview with George Sylvester Viereck, Liberty magazine (9 July 1932)
- Government
As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.
Eric Hobsbawm1917–2012Mapping the Nation (Mappings Series) (13 November 2012), p. 263.
Class struggle is inextricably bound to the struggle to end racism.
Bell hooks1952–2021Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984), Chapter 1: Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory, p. 3.
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Langston Hughes1901–1967I, Too (1925)In context
- America
I, too, am America.
Langston Hughes1901–1967I, Too (1925)In context
- America
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me.
Zora Neale Hurston1891–1960“How It Feels to Be Colored Me” (1928)
- Anger
When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
Jesse Jackson1941–2026
Presidents and Congresses, laws and lawsuits can open the doors to the polling places and open the doors to the wondrous rewards which await the wise use of the ballot. But only the individual Negro, and all others who have been denied the right to vote, can really walk through those doors, and can use that right, and can transform the vote into an instrument of justice and fulfillment.
Lyndon B. Johnson1908–1973Remarks on signing the Voting Rights Act (6 August 1965)
- Voting
This civil rights program about which you have heard so much is a farce and a sham; an effort to set up a police state in the guise of liberty. I am opposed to that program. I fought it in the Congress.
Lyndon B. Johnson1908–1973Speech in Austin, Texas (22 May 1948), as quoted in Quotations from Chairman LBJ (1968)
- Politics
Justice means a man’s hope should not be limited by the color of his skin.
Lyndon B. Johnson1908–1973State of the Union Address (1966)
- Justice
Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our Nation whole.
Lyndon B. Johnson1908–1973Civil Rights Bill signing speech (1964)
- America
Their cause must be our cause too. Because it is not just Negroes, but really it is all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome.
Lyndon B. Johnson1908–1973We Shall Overcome (1965)
- Justice
What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968Speech on the death of Martin Luther King Jr., Indianapolis (4 April 1968)
- America
- Love
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968I Have a Dream (1963)