Raheem DeVaughn Quotes

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

What the apartheid system was really good at doing was convincing groups to hate one another.

Whether that's racism, whether it's bigotry, whether it's gender inequality - whatever it is, it's all stemming from "me against you." And, like, how do you stop it? I just want to do my little part in helping try to stop it.

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.

If the blacks make war upon us they must abide by the awful retribution that will follow

If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. That is to say, it will not be the equality of social conditions but rather their inequality which may give rise thereto.

We are still a nation deeply divided by race and class.

It’s a sordid business this divvying us up by race.

Racism can be called our nation's own specific 'original sin.'

It's a bit unfair to accuse Obama of dividing the nation when the facts show that it already is.

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

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

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

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?

The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling... How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?

I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and water for coloured folks. White lines, black lines. I came from Beaufort in South Carolina, and it was tougher than Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.

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

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

All God’s dangers ain’t White men.

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