Quotes tagged ‘Colored People’

“I also don't believe in drugs. For years I paid my people extra so they wouldn't do that kind of business. Somebody comes to them and says, 'I have powders; if you put up three, four thousand dollar investment, we can make fifty thousand distributing.' So they can't resist. I want to control it as a…”

— Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, Don Zaluchi, Louis Guss, imdb.com

“Archie: All this celebrating just because one colored guy wants to leave the neighborhood. Mike: I thought you'd be the one leading the cheers.”

— Don Nicholl, Archie Bunker, Carroll O'Connor, imdb.com

“Archie: You're colored. Mike: Gee Arch, we didn't think you'd notice. Archie: You didn't sound colored on the phone. Mr. Byrd: I used the white telephone.”

— Michael Ross, Archie Bunker, Carroll O'Connor, imdb.com

“I ain't no bigot. I'm the first guy to say, 'It ain't your fault that youse are colored.'”

— Lee Kalcheim, Archie Bunker, Carroll O'Connor, imdb.com

“The colored people did not intrude themselves upon us. They were brought here in chains and held in the communities where they are now chiefly found by a cruel slave code. Happily for both races, they are now free.”

— Benjamin Harrison, en.wikiquote.org

“But notwithstanding all this, in many parts of our country where the colored population is large the people of that race are by various devices deprived of any effective exercise of their political rights and of many of their civil rights. The wrong does not expend itself upon those whose votes are…”

— Benjamin Harrison, en.wikiquote.org