Jose Marti Quotes

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others. Black America ever lives under that skeptical eye.

We can sugar-coat this any way we want to, but the reality is that there are some people who just don’t want a Black President.

I am astonished at the strong feeling of dislike and contempt—I might almost say hatred—which the bulk of the whites have for their black neighbours.

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

I will not fight a Negro. I never have and I never will.

We’re wise enough to know that black bigotry is just as evil as white bigotry.

We can replace the Negro mania with an anti-Mormon crusade.

Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice

It’s time we faced facts. Southern people just don’t like Black people.

Whoever foments and spreads antagonism and hate between the races, sins against humanity.

What right do white racist, who believe their race is superior, have for complaining about black racists, who see something special in their own race? What right do black racists, who see a special character in their race, have for complaining about white racists?

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.

You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.

As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.

Racism, n. Egotism taking the form of a delusion that one's own race is less depraved and idiotic than the criminal tendencies and gross stupidity exhibited by another.

The worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers is ... the treatment of the Negro.

A coloured man can tell, in five seconds dead, whether a white man likes him or not.

I would not use the influence of my office to deter citizens from punishing that nigger brute. I would have gladly resigned as governor and gone to Honea Path and led the mob myself.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored—it is a shadow over all of us.

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

From the time we entered Texas, everywhere we go there’s the smell of hatred in the air – the arrogant hatred of whites, the silent hatred of blacks.

So far as this particular negro is personally concerned, he may be dismissed as beneath contempt. There is a far graver side to the matter. This negro is regarded as a leader; he both reflects the sentiments of his race, and his utterance react upon his followers with an effect that was made sufficiently plain by the "vigorous applause" with which his slander was greeted by the negroes in the gallery. As the blatant mouthing of a mere negro, White's utterances are not worth notice; as a fresh manifestation of negroism, of what the negro's attitude is toward the white man, now and always, its significance should not be allowed to escape us.

The fuse of racial hatred is long and winds through all of Europe.

Negrophobia tended to hold even sparse Reconstruction institutions ... at low throttle, and played a part in Reconstruction’s incompleteness

Although the race problem may seem to lie dormant at times, it continually exists, lives on and on and sometimes rages with all the fury of a jungle beast. It gnaws at the very vitals of our existence, in time it will sap our strength and destroy the greatness of our American way of life unless solved properly and permanently.