James Weldon Johnson - The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912)

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Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.

James Weldon Johnson

The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

James Weldon Johnson

All the while I understood that it was not discouragement or fear or search for a larger field of action and opportunity that was driving me out of the Negro race. I knew that it was shame, unbearable shame. Shame at being identified with a people that could with impunity be treated worse than animals.

James Weldon Johnson