Ned Cobb Quotes

This is a contest between the white man’s hope and black evil.

The Negro has the simplest of alternatives: live a life of constant humility or ever-threatening danger.

Racism has its boot squarely wedged on the neck of black communities, and we don't want to be told that hard work and responsibility are the answer.

We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

You have no understanding of what it is to live in a community surcharged with an idle, dissolute, vicious, ignorant negro population just emerged from slavery.

Not only are whites kicking us; they are telling us how to react to being kicked.

You get racism crossing the street; it's in the very fabric of American society.

In the U.S., while individual whites might be against racism, they still benefit from their group's control. Yes, an individual person of color can sit at the tables of power, but the overwhelming majority of decision-makers will be white. Yes, white people can have problems and face barriers, but systematic racism won't be one of them.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather than my personal problem.

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.

I have the utmost respect and 'aloha' for black people - who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.

There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.

The white race ... will be proprietors of the land, and the blacks its cultivators; such is their destiny.

Thought the colored man is no longer subject to be bought and sold, he is still surrounded by an adverse sentiment which fetters all his movements. In his downward course he meets with no resistance, but his course upward is resisted at every step of his progress.

It is really my opinion that the whole race would be harmless and peaceable if they were not put upon by the whites.