- We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class. - Dick Gregory, 1964
- In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country. - Dick Gregory, 1964
- Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not. - Charlotte L. Forten Grimke, 1953
- I wonder that every colored person is not a misanthrope. Surely we have everything to make us hate mankind. - Charlotte L. Forten Grimke, 1953
- It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time. - Francis J. Grimke, 1927
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