W. H. Gregory Quotes

If white America is ready to extend complete democratic rights to colored people, there will be no race, no racial tension and no racial prejudice on either side, but we can be sure that any movement 'back to normalcy' in race relations will be bitterly resisted by colored people. It is now up to white America to make its choice...

I have the right to determine who shall be my mate without the permission of any man. I am not a slave.

I am for the negro against the crocodile, but for the white man against the negro.

Congress has done nothing to protect the loyal people of the South—Black or white.

The condition of white people in this State is such that they must labor in competition with the negro laborer.

White people scare the crap out of me... I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord... never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and I've never heard a black person say, "We're going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here— have a nice day

Slavery ended a long time ago, but the institution of chattel slavery and the ideology of racial subordination that accompanied it have cast a long shadow. I speak here of the history of lynching throughout the country; the racially biased policing and judging in the South under Jim Crow and in the cities of the Northeast, Midwest, and West to which blacks migrated after the First and Second World Wars; and the history of racial apartheid that ended only as a matter of law with the civil-rights movement. It should come as no surprise that in the post–civil rights era, race, far from being peripheral, has been central to the evolution of American social policy.

Freeborn English women who made shamefull Matches with Negro slaves.

Now in speaking like this, it doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression. And if the white man doesn't want us to be anti-him, let him stop oppressing and exploiting and degrading us.

The commission of crime is not randomly or evenly distributed in our society. If you wanted to remove everything correlated with race, you couldn’t use anything.

If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist.

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

If black or red skins or any other skin of color is disgraceful to God, it appears that he has disgraced himself a great deal—for he has made fifteen colored people to one white and placed them here upon this earth.

I am not ... in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them ... to intermarry with white people.

I flatly deny that it is a civil right for a white man to marry a black woman or for a black man to marry a white woman.

The suggestion that Negroes should be treated as equals to white men woke some of the deepest and ugliest fears in the American mind

Murder cases in which the victim was white were almost twice as likely to result in the death penalty as cases in which the victim was black, and blacks who killed whites were two and a half times more likely to be sentenced to death than whites who killed whites.

To be American in the United States means to be white, protestant, and very rich. This excludes almost entirely black people and anyone else who can be easily identified.

Whites don’t like to see the nigger with too much … White people was afraid that money will make the nigger act like his own man.

To say that a millionaire son of a Black deserves a preference over a poor White is pure madness.

We do not discriminate concerning marriage in the South; we simply do not let the whites and Negroes intermarry. We treat the white the same as the Negro.

Race has no place in American life or law.

Is Justice to be established by subjecting half of mankind to the will of the other half? Justice, Sir, is blind to colors, and weighs in equal scales the rights of all men whether white or black…. An opportunity is now presented, if not to diminish, at least to prevent the growth of a sin that sits heavy on the soul of every one of us.

White people must know that they are part black; Black people must know that they are part white.

The contempt we have been taught to entertain for the blacks, makes us fancy many things that are founded neither in reason nor experience