negroes

Noun

The word is derived from negro

Meaning

of Negro

Anagrams

Examples

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. Martin Luther King Jr.

Now, just a word about the poor Negroes... They're here. They've got to be cared for... The poor Negroes have got to live, too. Huey Long

The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes. Lee De Forest

Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes. Susan B. Anthony

Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves. James Baldwin

When the South has trouble with its Negroes - when the Negroes refuse to remain in their "place" - it blames "outside agitators" and "Northern interference." When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin. James Baldwin

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