We know all too little about the factors that affect the attitudes of the peoples of the world toward one another. It is clear, however, that color and race are at once the most important and the most enigmatic.

Quote by John Hope Franklin

Topics: Race Quotes

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the...

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the...

It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.

It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.

If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present;...

If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present;...

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the...

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the...

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness...

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness...

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but...

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but...

Afro Angel, born against the world You don't have to sell your soul and throw...

Afro Angel, born against the world You don't have to sell your soul and throw...

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open,...

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open,...

To win a race, the swiftness of a dart availeth not without a timely start.

To win a race, the swiftness of a dart availeth not without a timely start.

Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud...

Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud...

It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of...

It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of...

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race...

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race...

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of...

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of...

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not...

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not...

Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them

Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is...

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is...

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently...

Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently...

I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way...

I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way...

The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things

The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things