Black History Quotes - Page 2

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  In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

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• You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Life, Idaho, Politics

  Speech to San Francisco Barristers' Club, San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 1968.

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• Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

  Dorothy Height

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Perseverance

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• America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.

  Dick Gregory

  America, Giving, Pet

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• You face the biggest challenge of all: to have the courage to seek your big dream regardless of what anyone says. You are the only person alive who can see your big picture and even you can't see it all.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Dream, Courage

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• Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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

  Carter G. Woodson

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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• I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

  Muhammad Ali

  Cocky, Greatness, Names

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Freedom, Men, United States

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• Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

  Mae Jemison

  Inspiring, People, Imagination

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  Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

  Coretta Scott King

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Forgiveness

  "Understanding Cultural Diversity in Today's Complex World". Book by Leo Parvis, p. 54, 2010.

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• Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Leadership, Hope

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• My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

  Andrew Young

  Children, Heart, Voice

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• The time is always right to do what is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  "This Dallas Boy's MLK Jr. Speech Is Such A Sweet Message For Today's World" by Sarah Friedmann, www.bustle.com. January 2018.

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  You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

  Billie Holiday

  Hair, White, Liberty

  Lady Sings the Blues ch. 11 (1956).

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• 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 G. Woodson

  Religious, Hate, Race

  Carter G. Woodson (2008). “Negro Makers of History”, p.20, Wildside Press LLC

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• There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

  Ernest Gaines

  Change, Struggle, Past

  Ernest J. Gaines, John Lowe (1995). “Conversations with Ernest Gaines”, p.29, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "The Cancer Journals". Book by Audre Lorde, 1980.

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• The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Memorial Day

  John Brown ch. 13 (1909)

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• My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

  Malcolm X

  Father, Real, Names

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• Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.

  Audre Lorde

  Hatred, Doe, Used

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  If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Maya Angelou (1997). “The Heart of a Woman”, Bantam

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• 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

  Jobs, Thinking, Months

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• 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

  Believe, Responsibility, Rights

  "Shadow in the Land : Homosexuality in America" by William Dannemeyer, (p. 148), 1989.

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