Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles - Milestone Documents

Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles

( 1905 ) Commentary by Cary D. Wintz, Texas Southern University
  • “Any discrimination based simply on race or color is barbarous, we care not how hallowed it be by custom, expediency or prejudice.” - Color-Line
  • “The Negro race in America stolen, ravished and degraded, struggling up through difficulties and oppression, needs sympathy and receives criticism; needs help and is given hindrance, needs protection and is given mob-violence, needs justice and is given charity, needs leadership and is given cowardice and apology, needs bread and is given a stone.” - Oppression
  • “Of the above grievances we do not hesitate to complain, and to complain loudly and insistently. To ignore, overlook, or apologize for these wrongs is to prove ourselves unworthy of freedom.” - Agitation
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