“No defender of slavery, I concede that it has its benevolent aspects in lifting the Negro from savagery and helping prepare him for that eventual freedom which is surely written in the Book of Fate”
Thomas Jefferson
“How could I not know him, ... He beat me up with savagery and brutality. I will always remember his face my whole life.”
Zhao Yan
“Where education is lacking, there is savagery, there is a lot of naivety.”
Mariana Fulger
“Wisdom lightens the foreheads, the eyes, and the souls – savagery, fangs and fists.”
“The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
“It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. . . . We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.”
Zora Neale Hurston
“Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.”
Sammy Davis Jr.
