negroes quotes

Our noble society for providing the infant negroes inthe West Indies with flannel waistcoats and moral pocket handkerchiefs.

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^7  Rev Mr Stiggins. Pickwick Papers, ch.27.

As a matter of racial pride we want to be called blacks. Which has replaced the term Afro-American.Which replaced Negroes.Which replaced colored people. Which replaced darkies.Which replaced blacks.

-Jules Feiffer
Quoted in William Safire Language Maven Strikes  Again (1990).

How isitthat wehear theloudest yelpsforlibertyamong the drivers of negroes?

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Taxation No Tyranny.

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.

- Martin LutherJr King
  Speech at the Christian leadership conference,  Atlanta, 16  Aug.

William James could almost hear the bronze Negroes breathe. Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

- RobertTraill Spence,Jr Lowell
  'For The Union Dead'.