1 If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. —Marcus Garvey
If a person lacks self believe, he would never succeed in the struggle of life
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2 There comes a time when people get tired of being plunged into the abyss of exploitation and nagging injustice. —Martin Luther King, Jr.
Revolution is sparked by the souls who have been butchered enough by unjust violations.
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3 If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist. —Neil deGrasse Tyson
All occupations must receive respect. Irrespective of the color of the man who is doing them.
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4 Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself. —Oprah Winfrey
Do not contain your ideas because those ideas might be able to bring about the required change in the society.
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5 When we’re talking about diversity, it’s not a box to check. It is a reality that should be deeply felt and held and valued by all of us. —Ava DuVernay
Diversity shouldn’t only be described and respected in books but should also be protected and cherished in real life.
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6 I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger. —Serena Williams
One must not give up. On anything. For a desire to keep on going is what fuels success.
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7 Have a vision of excellence, a dream of success, and work like hell. —Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook
Set a goal for yourself and work like hell.
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8 Racism isn’t born, folks, it’s taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list. —Dennis Leary
Racism isn’t born but is what children learn in this society. For kids would never hate on anyone unless they’re taught to.
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9 Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral. —Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are no efforts to amalgamate or separate. There is just the thought of death in the eyes.
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10 He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. —Muhammad Ali
The better the risk is the better is the reward. Those who cannot leap for risks cannot accomplish anything.
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11 For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. —Nelson Mandela
Freedom isn’t just letting people go. But freedom is to respect the way that they are and to keep working towards it.
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12 The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. —Maya Angelou
The need of the hour being the change opens ideas and perspectives to new beliefs
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13 Truth is powerful and it prevails. —Sojourner Truth
Nothing can ever overpower the truth.
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14 My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.—Desmond Tutu
Humans can coexist when the latter shows the former, the humanity he wants to receive.
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15 Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.—Langston Hughes
Life without goals and aspirations becomes pointless
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16 If there is no struggle, there is no progress.—Frederick Douglass
One must not expect success without expecting struggles and failures
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17 The time is always right to do what is right.—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The right thing doesn’t have to wait for the right time to be done. It has to be done at the very moment it’s thought of.
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18 Have a vision. Be demanding.—Colin Powell
Demand more from your life and yourself. And work to fulfill those demands.
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19 Freedom is never given; it is won.—A. Philip Randolph, civil rights activist
Freedom cannot be gifted for its a right to be won.
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20 Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.—Booker T. Washington
Success can be measured by how far a person has come in his life and what all he has faced.
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21 The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. -W.E.B. Du Bois
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. -W.E.B. Du Bois
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22 Hate is too great a burden to bear, It injures the hater more than it injures the hated. -Coretta Scott King
Hate will only hurt the hater more than it does the hated. It’s a poison that slowly eats you up from the inside, eventually destroying you. You either have a choice to be consumed by it or be the better person and choose love instead of hate.
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23 I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. -Rosa Parks
You need to be sure of what you want to do if you wish to be successful. You need to make up your mind and persevere with determination. That is the only way to conquer your fears.
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24 Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that, Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that. -Martin Luther King Jr.
Only the light can drive out darkness. And only love can drive away hate. Hate on top of hate only multiplies. Hate can never save anyone as only love holds that power.
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25 Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. –Nelson Mandela
Only with knowledge can the world be changed. Education holds the power to bring about significant change in the world. History is witness to the power of education.
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26 In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute. –Thurgood Marshall
Beneath the color of our skin, beyond the limits of national borders and cultural boundaries, we are all humans with a shared humanity. Only by acknowledging and accepting this fact can we really honor each other.
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27 There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints. –Rita Dove
There is no point in complaining. There comes a time when you need to stop complaining and do something about your problems. Find a solution rather than rant about your issues.
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28 Diversity is not about how we differ, Diversity is about embracing one another’s uniqueness. -Ola Joseph
Diversity is about accepting each other for how we are. It is about acknowledging our differences and embracing our uniqueness. We are all different and yet at the very core, the same human.
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29 I can accept failure, Everyone fails at something, But I can’t accept not trying. -Michael Jordan
Failure is natural. Everyone fails at something or the other at some point in their life. You need to stop being so hard on yourself. No matter what it is, the most important thing is that you do not stop trying.
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30 We are the ones we’ve been waiting for, We are the change that we seek. -Barack Obama
Instead of waiting for someone else to come and save you, you need to do it yourself. You need to be the change that you seek. Everything starts from within.
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31 A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. -Malcolm X
A person who changes sides and opinions frequently is gullible. One must have an informed opinion and stand by it, rather than jumping around and being persuaded by anything and everything.
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32 Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. -Malcolm X
Good and bad are impartial and objective concepts. What is wrong shall always remain to be wrong regardless of who does it. You cannot be blinded by love or prejudice that you overlook their sins.
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33 Racism isn’t born, folks, it’s taught. -Dennis Leary
Racism is not something that people are born with. It is systematically indoctrinated into the minds of the young. The system is endowed with subtle racist habits that eventually grow into big racist issues.
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34 Racism is man’s gravest threat to man, the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. -Abraham Joshua Heschel
Racism is needless and irrational hate. There is no point in hating another for the color of their skin. There’s no logic or explanation to it. All it is is pure hatred.
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35 We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white, It’s our basic human right. -Aretha Franklin
Respect and dignity are our rights and we are entitled to them. No person, irrespective of their gender, culture, or race deserves to be hurt or disrespected. They should be treated as equals and seen as every other human is.
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36 Nobody’s free until everybody’s free. -Fannie Lou Hamer
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Until every person is emancipated and protected from injustice and oppression, humanity can never be truly free. No society can be considered truly free if there’s even one person who’s subjected to inhumane, systematic oppression.
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37 We have to wake up America, We have to make America uncomfortable like we’ve been uncomfortable for 400 years. -Gwen Carr
The Black community has been subjected to several injustices over the years. While the privileged have stayed numb to their struggle, those at the receiving end have had to face the brunt of the injustices. And it is time that the comfortable become uncomfortable and be made to see what the true reality is in the country.
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38 What we want, what we represent, what we endure is what America is. -Richard Wright
The black community has always been subjected to injustice and systematic oppression. And their struggle is what has defined America. Their endurance, strength and resilience are the core of American values and not the racist, white supremacist values !q55that has been propgated throughout history.
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39 You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. -Malcolm X
Peace and freedom go hand in hand. Without freedom and liberty, there can be no peace. Everytime a person’s personal liberty is seized from him, it is a threat to peace.
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40 Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. -Martin Luther King Jr.
The oppressors will never care for the oppressed. You cannot expect them to come out and help the oppressed. Justice and freedom have to be demanded by the oppressed themselves.
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41 If you dare to struggle, you dare to win, If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don’t deserve to win. -Fred Hampton
No victory comes without struggle. If you do not have the courage to face your problems and dare to struggle, victory shall always be a distant dream. Look at all the injustice and oppression that you are subjected to in its face and demand your rights. Stand up for them and keep fighting till you win.
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42 In the end, anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism. -Shirley Chisholm
Any form of systematic injustice and discrimination is a crime against humanity itself. Unless everyone enjoys their rights and freedom, humanity is not completely free of injustice.
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43 Liberation lies within us and will not be formed from the current institutional structures we have in place for it never has. -Fatimata Cham
Liberation comes from change within us. A system that has always been used to oppress people can never be used to relieve that oppression. It has to be dismantled altogether and a new system be placed in its place.
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44 We must keep the faith because we are one people, We are brothers and sisters, We all live in the same house: The American house. -John Lewis
America is a land of one people. We are all a family living in the same house: America. And it is only by standing together and uniting that we can make this nation a better place altogether.
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45 Emancipation wasn’t a gift bestowed on the slaves; it was something they took for themselves, the culmination of their long struggle for freedom. -Jamelle Bouie
Emancipation was never something that was handed down to the slaves. It was something that they fought for. It was their incessant struggle that brought them that freedom.
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46 In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, We must be anti-racist. -Angela Davis
It is not enough that you say you are not racist. In a world like ours, where people of colour are so brutally discriminated against, you have to condemn every act of racism and stand in solidarity with those who are facing such hate.
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47 There is no such thing as race, None, There is just a human race, scientifically, anthropologically. -Toni Morrison
Race is just a social construct. The colour of your skin should not determine how others act towards you. There is only one race and that is the human. Everything else, from race, to caste to religion is just superficial and mindless social constructs that make no sense.
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48 Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. -Maya Angelou
Prejudice blinds people. It breeds hatred and violence, making the future uncertain and the present, obscured. Unless we rise above such petty hate and break open the chains of prejudice, we can never truly progress as the human race.
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49 Hating people because of their color is wrong, And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating, It’s just plain wrong. -Muhammed Ali
Hate spread on the basis of colour, or any other social construct, is stupid and irrational. Regardless of where you are on the spectrum, discriminating against someone just because the amount of melanin in their body is different, or they belong to a particular culture or race can never be justified.
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50 Race doesn’t really exist for you because it has never been a barrier, Black folks don’t have that choice. -Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
The privileged folks, especially the white majority, are blind to the racism that is ubiquitous in the world. They cannot see racism because they are not, in any manner, affected by the brutality of racial injustice. Their privilege blinds them.
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51 Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all. -Fred Hampton
Fascism is an authoritarian regime that gives no regard to the rights of people. Stand up against fascism for if you don’t it will eventually come for you. Raise your voice before it is too late.
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52 Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision – Muhammad Ali
Training can create a limited amount of winners mentality. It normally comes from within. Every champion is fueled by a desire to be the best which leads to putting in efforts and translates into victory.
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53 All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity. -bell hooks
The silence of the people help in strengthening all forms of discriminatory culture in the world. Silence is complicity. If you are silent in the face of injustice, you are taking the side of the oppressor.
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54 Change is never easy but always possible. -Barack Obama
Change is often tough to bring about. There are always too many things to look out for, too many barriers to break and too many challenges to overcome. But you always have a chance to do it. Change is difficult but always possible
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55 I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. -Claudette Colvin
The path to attain justice is not an easy one. There’ll be too many challenges that you’ll have to pay. You’ll have to stand up, raise your voice and fight against those who deny you your rights.
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56 Love recognizes no barriers, It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. -Maya Angelou
Love is powerful. No matter how much you try to stop it, no matter what obstacles you face, love always perseveres and makes it through.
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57 Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be? -Michelle Obama
The world is, by no means, perfect. There are atrocities, injustice, inequality, disease and so many other problems that plague society. We can either choose to settle for the way it is, or we can strive for change.
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58 Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread, and deep-seated, that it is invisible because it is so normal. -Shirley Chisholm
Racism has seeped so deep into the social fabric of the country that it has become normalised by now. The majority of people cannot see it because they’ve become conditioned to it.
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59 I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’ -Dick Gregory
Prejudice and hate are deep rooted in most people’s minds. Racism has become so normalised in society that most people cannot even comprehend the possibility of equality.
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60 We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. -Fred Hampton
You cannot fight evil with evil. Only the light can destroy darkness. Social evils like racism can only be defeated by standing in solidarity with the oppressed.
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61 If you see a black family, it’s looting, but if it’s a white family they are looking for food. –Kanye West
Racism is instilled very deeply into our culture. The double standards are very apparent when you look at the simplest things. The standards for a white family is not the same as it is for a person of colour.
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62 Don’t agonize, organize. -Florynce Kennedy
Violence and anger is never the way to change anything. If you want to fight for justice, educate and organize. To change the system, rely on peaceful methods of protest instead of hateful and violent actions.
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63 Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. -James Baldwin
Hatred is a double-edged sword. The hate that you harbour inside you does not only lead you to inflict harm on others, but it also harms yourself. It eats you from the inside and turns you into a toxic person.
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64 We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes. –Ella Baker
Every human on this earth is born with the right to freedom and no person can take that away from another. Those who believe in the principles of justice, freedom and equality will fight for it.
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65 The struggle is eternal. The tribe increases. Somebody else carries on. – Ella Baker
The fight for justice, freedom and human rights will never end. Racism, patriarchy and all forms of oppressive systems will eventually be brought down. Even if those leading the fight pass away, there’ll be others to take forward the legacy.
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65 Empowering Quotes By Great Black Leaders For Black History Month
1. If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. —Marcus Garvey
2. There comes a time when people get tired of being plunged into the abyss of exploitation and nagging injustice. —Martin Luther King, Jr.
3. If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist. —Neil deGrasse Tyson
4. Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself. —Oprah Winfrey
5. When we’re talking about diversity, it’s not a box to check. It is a reality that should be deeply felt and held and valued by all of us. —Ava DuVernay
6. I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger. —Serena Williams
7. Have a vision of excellence, a dream of success, and work like hell. —Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook
8. Racism isn’t born, folks, it’s taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list. —Dennis Leary
9. Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral. —Martin Luther King, Jr.
10. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. —Muhammad Ali
11. For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. —Nelson Mandela
12. The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. —Maya Angelou
13. Truth is powerful and it prevails. —Sojourner Truth
14. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.—Desmond Tutu
15. Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.—Langston Hughes
16. If there is no struggle, there is no progress.—Frederick Douglass
17. The time is always right to do what is right.—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
18. Have a vision. Be demanding.—Colin Powell
19. Freedom is never given; it is won.—A. Philip Randolph, civil rights activist
20. Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.—Booker T. Washington
21. The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. -W.E.B. Du Bois
22. Hate is too great a burden to bear, It injures the hater more than it injures the hated. -Coretta Scott King
23. I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. -Rosa Parks
24. Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that, Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that. -Martin Luther King Jr.
25. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. –Nelson Mandela
26. In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute. –Thurgood Marshall
27. There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints. –Rita Dove
28. Diversity is not about how we differ, Diversity is about embracing one another’s uniqueness. -Ola Joseph
29. I can accept failure, Everyone fails at something, But I can’t accept not trying. -Michael Jordan
30. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for, We are the change that we seek. -Barack Obama
31. A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. -Malcolm X
32. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. -Malcolm X
33. Racism isn’t born, folks, it’s taught. -Dennis Leary
34. Racism is man’s gravest threat to man, the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. -Abraham Joshua Heschel
35. We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white, It’s our basic human right. -Aretha Franklin
36. Nobody’s free until everybody’s free. -Fannie Lou Hamer
37. We have to wake up America, We have to make America uncomfortable like we’ve been uncomfortable for 400 years. -Gwen Carr
38. What we want, what we represent, what we endure is what America is. -Richard Wright
39. You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. -Malcolm X
40. Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. -Martin Luther King Jr.
41. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win, If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don’t deserve to win. -Fred Hampton
42. In the end, anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism. -Shirley Chisholm
43. Liberation lies within us and will not be formed from the current institutional structures we have in place for it never has. -Fatimata Cham
44. We must keep the faith because we are one people, We are brothers and sisters, We all live in the same house: The American house. -John Lewis
45. Emancipation wasn’t a gift bestowed on the slaves; it was something they took for themselves, the culmination of their long struggle for freedom. -Jamelle Bouie
46. In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, We must be anti-racist. -Angela Davis
47. There is no such thing as race, None, There is just a human race, scientifically, anthropologically. -Toni Morrison
48. Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. -Maya Angelou
49. Hating people because of their color is wrong, And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating, It’s just plain wrong. -Muhammed Ali
50. Race doesn’t really exist for you because it has never been a barrier, Black folks don’t have that choice. -Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
51. Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all. -Fred Hampton
52. Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision – Muhammad Ali
53. All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity. -bell hooks
54. Change is never easy but always possible. -Barack Obama
55. I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. -Claudette Colvin
56. Love recognizes no barriers, It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. -Maya Angelou
57. Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be? -Michelle Obama
58. Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread, and deep-seated, that it is invisible because it is so normal. -Shirley Chisholm
59. I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’ -Dick Gregory
60. We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. -Fred Hampton
61. If you see a black family, it’s looting, but if it’s a white family they are looking for food. –Kanye West
62. Don’t agonize, organize. -Florynce Kennedy
63. Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. -James Baldwin
64. We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes. –Ella Baker Every human on this earth is born with the right to freedom and no person ca
65. The struggle is eternal. The tribe increases. Somebody else carries on. – Ella Baker
