Racial Cooperation Quotes

Unless we get white people into the streets with Negroes for the march [on Washington], the fight will appear to be between white people and black and not between justice and injustice.

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.

Malcolm X already envisioning the N.O.I. playing a role cooperatively with integrationist organizations.

[Civil right leaders]themselves in their pronouncements will tell you they need white allies, they need white help, they need white this.

If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood.

We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.

The one thing that I'm always gonna promote is, 'Don't look at a fellow black man as an enemy.' And it's hard. It's really hard, though, when you're coming up. It's something that you have to teach yourself and learn.

If white and black and red and brown can come together to focus our energies on overcoming the racial malaise that persists, then this will have been a great moment.

I'm always telling the brothers some of those whites are willing to work with us against the pigs. All they got to do is stop talking honky. When the races start fighting, all you have is one maniac group against another.

I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past. I think we have to seek to create coalitional strategies that go beyond racial lines. We need to bring black communities, Chicano communities, Puerto Rican communities, Asian American communities together.

The time has arrived for the cooperation of coloured races with the government, to act unitedly to protect the rights of all coloured races and secure an extension of civil and political liberty to all qualified men irrespective of race, colour or creed throughout the contemplated Union.

The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

Forget our special grievances and close ranks shoulder to shoulder with our white fellow-citizens.