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If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption. (Black Kettle )
On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy. (Black Kettle )
We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago. (Black Kettle )
“When I was growing up, basically the only black men on television were criminals or Flip Wilson dressed in drag as a character called Geraldine. But you rarely had black professionals portrayed in the culture.” (Black Kettle )
“It gave you a sense that strong, capable black men were out there and you didn't have to assume that your fate was automatically working in some menial job or getting involved in crime,” (Black Kettle )
“It is way too simplistic just to say this administration doesn't care about black people,” (Black Kettle )
It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive. (Black Kettle )
The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. (Black Kettle )
We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism. (Black Kettle )
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome. (Black Kettle )
You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity. (Black Kettle )
For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people. (Black Kettle )
I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty. (Black Kettle )
The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist. (Black Kettle )
Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so. (Black Kettle )
The Afro-American is not a bestial race. (Black Kettle )
The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South. (Black Kettle )
The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience. (Black Kettle )
The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience. (Black Kettle )
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. (Black Kettle )
The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense. (Black Kettle )
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