One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.
Carter G. Woodson
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
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Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
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Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
A. Philip Randolph
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Except for teachers, who are 'controlled' as far as his militancy is concerned, good jobs are rare for Negroes.
Medgar Evers
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As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.
James Weldon Johnson
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