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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

I want the white people to understand my people.

All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

I maintain that the past record of my race is a true index of the feelings which today animate them. They bear toward their former masters no revengeful thoughts, no hatreds, no animosities. They aim not to elevate themselves by sacrificing one single interest of their white fellow-citizens.

While it is desirable to build up the colored race, we must not sacrifice our best and purest white friends.

I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.

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

What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.