10000+ Motivational and Inspiring Quotes About Life, Love & Success

Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing

was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

I talked and talked of everything

I know about the white man's inhuman treatment of the Negro.

Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and

what he has done to one life multiplied

millions of times over these United States and the world.

He walks us on a tightrope from birth.

I had felt for a long time that,

if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit,

that I would refuse to do so.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free,

I was not alone.

There were many others who felt the same way.

My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.

As far back as I can remember,

I knew there was something wrong with our way of life

when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.

Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.

We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference,

accepting the false pattern set up by

the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.

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.

I'm tired of being treated like a second

class citizen.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free...

so other people would be also free.

People always say that I didn't give up my seat because

I was tired, but that isn't true.

I was not tired physically...

No,

the only tired I was,

was tired of giving in.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

I looked up my family tree and found out

I was the sap.

I drink too much.

The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

I met the surgeon general

he offered me a cigarette.

My cousin's gay, he went to London

only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

My marriage is on the rocks again,

yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

I remember the time I was kidnapped and

they sent a piece of my finger to my father.

He said he wanted more proof.

My mother never breast fed me,

she told me she only liked me as a friend.