Be
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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
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"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
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"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
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“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
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"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
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"We
may have different religions, different languages, different
colored skin, but we all belong to one human race."
-- Kofi
Annan
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"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
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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
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"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.”
-- Harry Belafonte
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"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
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"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
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"We
have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating
society."
-- Angela
Davis
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“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
“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
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"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
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We
cannot afford to be separate. . . . We have to see that
all of us are in the same boat.
-- Dorothy
Height
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"Let
America be America, where equality is in the air we
breathe."
-- Langston
Hughes
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"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
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“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
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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
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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
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“Let
us not become the evil that we deplore.”
-- Barbara
Lee
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"I
believe in nonviolence as a way of life, as a way
of living."
-- John
R. Lewis
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Whenever
I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong
impulse to see it tried on him personally.
-- Abraham
Lincoln
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“Emancipate
yourselves
from mental slavery.
None but ourselves
can free our minds.
Won't you help to sing
The songs of freedom?”
-- Bob
Marley
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"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
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“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
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"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
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"My
satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a
better world."
-- Faye
Wattleton
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"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
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"Slowly
we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step
by halting step, we have beat our way back."
~Roy
Wilkins
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Excellence
is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
-- Oprah
Winfrey
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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
Woodson
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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
Woodson
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"In
a world where change is inevitable and continuous,
the need to achieve that change without violence is
essential for survival."
-- Andrew
Young
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"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
