Quotes on Colored

I have made it possible for many colored women to abandon the washtub for a more pleasant and profitable occupation.

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.

The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling... How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?

I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.