Download HD Quote65 Empowering Quotes By Great Black Leaders For Black History Month1. If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. —Marcus Garvey2. 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 Tyson4. 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 Winfrey5. 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 DuVernay6. I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger. —Serena Williams7. Have a vision of excellence, a dream of success, and work like hell. —Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook8. 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 Leary9. 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 Ali11. 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 Mandela12. The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. —Maya Angelou13. Truth is powerful and it prevails. —Sojourner Truth14. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.—Desmond Tutu15. Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.—Langston Hughes16. If there is no struggle, there is no progress.—Frederick Douglass17. The time is always right to do what is right.—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.18. Have a vision. Be demanding.—Colin Powell19. Freedom is never given; it is won.—A. Philip Randolph, civil rights activist20. 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. Washington21. The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. -W.E.B. Du Bois22. Hate is too great a burden to bear, It injures the hater more than it injures the hated. -Coretta Scott King23. I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. -Rosa Parks24. 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 Mandela26. In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute. –Thurgood Marshall27. There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints. –Rita Dove28. Diversity is not about how we differ, Diversity is about embracing one another’s uniqueness. -Ola Joseph29. I can accept failure, Everyone fails at something, But I can’t accept not trying. -Michael Jordan30. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for, We are the change that we seek. -Barack Obama31. A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. -Malcolm X32. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. -Malcolm X33. Racism isn’t born, folks, it’s taught. -Dennis Leary34. Racism is man’s gravest threat to man, the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. -Abraham Joshua Heschel35. We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white, It’s our basic human right. -Aretha Franklin36. Nobody’s free until everybody’s free. -Fannie Lou Hamer37. We have to wake up America, We have to make America uncomfortable like we’ve been uncomfortable for 400 years. -Gwen Carr38. What we want, what we represent, what we endure is what America is. -Richard Wright39. You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. -Malcolm X40. 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 Hampton42. In the end, anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism. -Shirley Chisholm43. Liberation lies within us and will not be formed from the current institutional structures we have in place for it never has. -Fatimata Cham44. 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 Lewis45. 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 Bouie46. In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, We must be anti-racist. -Angela Davis47. There is no such thing as race, None, There is just a human race, scientifically, anthropologically. -Toni Morrison48. Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. -Maya Angelou49. Hating people because of their color is wrong, And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating, It’s just plain wrong. -Muhammed Ali50. Race doesn’t really exist for you because it has never been a barrier, Black folks don’t have that choice. -Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche51. Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all. -Fred Hampton52. Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision – Muhammad Ali53. All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity. -bell hooks54. Change is never easy but always possible. -Barack Obama55. I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. -Claudette Colvin56. Love recognizes no barriers, It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. -Maya Angelou57. Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be? -Michelle Obama58. Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread, and deep-seated, that it is invisible because it is so normal. -Shirley Chisholm59. I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’ -Dick Gregory60. We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. -Fred Hampton61. If you see a black family, it’s looting, but if it’s a white family they are looking for food. –Kanye West62. Don’t agonize, organize. -Florynce Kennedy63. Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. -James Baldwin64. 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 ca65. The struggle is eternal. The tribe increases. Somebody else carries on. – Ella Baker, Explore 136 African Americans Quotes by authors including Willie Nelson, James Meredith, and Claudette Colvin at BrainyQuote. "During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in", 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. 2 There comes a time when people get tired of being plunged into the abyss of exploitation and nagging injustice. —Martin Luther King, Jr..