Democratic Party Quotes

Negro President

If Abraham Lincoln had had his way, there would be no Black people in America—None!

We cannot forget that America was built on Africa.

I was taught about slavery, but it was the ancient Egyptians. That's the closest I got to African history.

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.

What we fly today is not an enduring symbol of our heritage, but the fighting flag of those who wanted to preserve a segregated South.

President Bush blames the LA riots on the 60's. Which 60's is he talking about the 1960s or the 1860s when Lincoln freed the slaves?

The institution of slavery in U. S. A. was Christian, and Christianity was slave-holding there.

The story of the Negro in America is the story of America. It is not a pretty story.

If you want to understand America, it's slavery.

Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man's blood that has been shed.

The first Black Migration to this country was forced migration. It was the Middle Passage.

I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history.

I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader dawned.

I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play.

I realized that my grandfather walked with Martin Luther King forty years ago. That was his dream. And in his little way, he helped us get closer to where we are today.

For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black man's humanity was not recognized.

I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks.

I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'

The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.

It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.