Quotes about blacks by genius philosophers

"It is characteristic of the blacks that their consciousness has not yet even arrived at the intuition of any objectivity, as for example, of God or the law, in which humanity relates to the world and intuits its essence. ...He is a human being in the rough." - George Hegel

“I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent either in action or speculation. No ingenious manufactures amongst them, no arts, no sciences… Not to mention our colonies, there are Negroe slaves dispersed all over Europe, of which none ever discovered any symptoms of ingenuity, tho’ low people, without education, will start up amonst us, and distinguish themselves in every profession. In JAMAICA indeed they talk of one negroe as a man of parts and learning; but ‘tis likely he is admired for very slender accomplishments like a parrot, who speaks a few words plainly”. - David Hume

"A perfectly stupid race can never rise to a very high plane; the Negro, for instance, has been kept down so much by lack of intellectual development as by anything else." "All reflecting men of both races are united in feeling that race purity must be maintained." "The [African] porters are strong, patient, good- humored savages with something childlike about them that makes one really fond of them. Of course, like all savages and most children, they have their limitations."
Teddy Roosevelt