Hiram Rhodes Revels Quotes

Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races.

During the canvass in the State of Mississippi, I traveled into different parts of that state, and this is the doctrine that I everywhere uttered: that while I was in favor of building up the colored race, I was not in favor of tearing down the white race.

We believe as much in the purity of races as we think they (the Whites) do...by advocating the purity of all races.

I will go even further ... and will vote for all measures to elevate their condition and to educate them (Negroes) separate and apart from the whites ... but when it comes to placing him upon the same social and political level as my own race, I must refuse to do it.

His aim is to place the Negroes on equality with the white man—to have him eat at the same table, sit in the same pew, and vote at the same ballot box. He would appear to forget altogether the Creator himself made a distinction when he established the immovable barrier of color between the races.

This problem, which exists because of the presence of … Negroes in this country, can be permanently solved only by the physical separation of the races or by resigning ourselves to total mongrelization resulting in the destruction of both the white and black races

White America's live under this accusation that they're racist, they need to prove that they're not racist. In order to prove that you're not racist, you need to take over the fate of black people and say, go with us, we'll engineer you into the future, we'll engineer you into equality.

We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race.

If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right. If separation will get him that, all right.But after he gets integration and he still doesn't have this dignity and this recognition as a human being, then his problem is still not solved.

Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation.

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis.

I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.

White society will not listen to preaching. They will not listen to their liberals. Liberalism has not grown within white society, and we blacks cannot stand idly by watching the situation. We can only generate a response from white society when we, as blacks, speak with a black voice and say what we want. Now has come the time when we, as blacks, must articulate what we want, and put it across to the white man, and from a position of strength.

I hold that this government was established…for the benefit of white men and their prosperity forever, and should be administered by white men, and none others.

If social equality should be granted and intermarriage should become a matter of individual taste, then the pride of race and the sense of blood superiority which has heretofore protected the Southern whites would be destroyed.

I have never contended for giving the negro equal privileges with the white man. That is a doctrine I do not advocate.

There is no case in history where the Caucasian race has survived social integration.... We must either submit to the unlawful dictate of the federal government or stand up like men and tell them, "Never.

A race-transcendent politics is most likely to succeed when the white community takes responsibility for overcoming its racism, not when the black community decides to forget it.

This Government was made by our fathers on the white basis ... made by white men for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever.’

Racial harmony does not mean racial mixing.

The colored people should not urge that they be placed on an equality with white people.

The white people can go wherever they please and they will not be disturbed by us, and I want you to let them know.