The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst.
Countless black citizens in the South couldn't vote. They were second-class citizens from cradle to grave. The discrimination was terrible, brutal.
African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.
Nobody black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.
You can't say the Negro left the Republican Party; the Negro feels he was evicted from the Republican Party.
The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale.
The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.
Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.
We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.