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* Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.
-- Ralph Abernathy
* "We intend to make this world the most beautiful, glorious planet that any human being can imagine and, really, beyond anything any human being can imagine."
-- Hafsat Abiola
* "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."
-- Muhammad Ali
* “Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in the blessings of her luxuriant soil.”
-- Richard Allen

* "We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate --- thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising."
-- Maya Angelou

* "We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race."
-- Kofi Annan

* "In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed... It means facing a system that does not lend its self to your needs and devising means by which you change that system."
-- Ella Baker

* While the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard.
-- James Baldwin

* "If I've impacted on one heart, one mind, one soul, and brought to that individual a greater truth than that individual came into a relationship with me having, then I would say that I have been successful."
-- Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte: “If I've impacted on one heart, one mind, one soul, and brought to that individual a greater truth than that individual came into a relationship with me having, then I would say that I have been successful.

Harry Belafonte: “If I've impacted on one heart, one mind, one soul, and brought to that individual a greater truth than that individual came into a relationship with me having, then I would say that I have been successful.”

“If I've impacted on one heart, one mind, one soul, and brought to that individual a greater truth than that individual came into a relationship with me having, then I would say that I have been successful.”
-- Harry Belafonte

 

* "The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion. "
-- Stephen Biko

 

* "The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute."
-- Julian Bond

* "We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."
-- Angela Davis

* "What is possible for me is possible for you."
-- Frederick Douglass

* “Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.”
-- W. E. B. DuBois

W. E. B. Du Bois: “Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year.

“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year.” -- W. E. B. Du Bois

 

* "Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid strides and causing tyrants to tremble, may America awake from the apathy in which she has long slumbered."
--
James Forten

* "Nobody's free until everybody's free."
-- Fannie Lou Hamer

* We cannot afford to be separate. . . . We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.
-- Dorothy Height

* "Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe."
-- Langston Hughes

* "Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me. "
-- Zora Neale Hurston

* “The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.”
-- Jesse Jackson

* "I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
-- Coretta Scott King

* I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr

* “Let us not become the evil that we deplore.”
-- Barbara Lee

* "I believe in nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living."
-- John R. Lewis

* Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. 
-- Abraham Lincoln

* “Emancipate yourselves
from mental slavery.
None but ourselves
can free our minds.
Won't you help to sing
The songs of freedom?”
-- Bob Marley

* "I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people."
-- Rosa Parks

* “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
-- Harriet Tubman

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
-- Harriet Tubman

* "It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower is to bloom."
~Alice Walker

* "My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world."
-- Faye Wattleton

* "None of us alone can save the nation or world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so."
-- Cornel West

* "Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back."
~Roy Wilkins

* Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
-- Oprah Winfrey

* What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
~Carter Woodson

* Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
~Carter Woodson

* "In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival."
-- Andrew Young

* "No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin."
-- Whitney Young

 

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