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| Famous African American Quotes |
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| Well done is better than well said. |
-Benjamin Franklin |
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| Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. |
-GeorgeBernardShaw |
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| There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. |
-Mother Teresa |
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| A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. |
-Albert Einstein |
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| Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. |
-DwightD.Eisenhower |
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| What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label "Liberal?" If by "Liberal" they mean, as they want people to believe, someone who is soft in his policies abroad, who is against local government, and who is unconcerned with the taxpayer's dollar, then ... we are not that kind of "Liberal." But if by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal." [September 14, 1960] |
-John F. Kennedy |
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| ...Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around when yellow will be mellow when the red man can get ahead, man and when white will embrace what is right... |
-Rev. Lowery |
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| The first need of a free people is to define their own terms |
-Stokely Carmichael |
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| If you are not part of the solution ~ You are part of the problem. |
-Stokely Carmichael |
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| A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it. |
-MarcusGarvey |
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| Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice. |
-GeorgeJackson |
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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 |
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| A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks. |
-ThurgoodMarshall |
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| The only protection against injustice in man is power -- physical, financial, and scientific. |
-MarcusGarvey |
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| Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more. |
-Stokely Carmichael |
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| Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation. |
-CorettaScott King |
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| The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom. |
-PhillisWheatley |
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| It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. |
-Frederick Douglass |
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| Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff. |
-SojournerTruth |
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| Early in life I learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise. |
-MalcolmX |
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| Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. |
-Booker T. Washington |
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| Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them. |
-Madame C.J.Walker |
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| No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it. |
-JamesBaldwin |
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| Hungry men have no respect for the law, authority, or human life. |
-MarcusGarvey |
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| Give light and people will find the way. |
-EllaJ. Baker |
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| The struggle is eternal. The tribe increases. Somebody else carries on. |
-EllaJ. Baker |
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| Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires.... But what history really shows is that today's empire is tomorrow's ashes, that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit. |
-MumiaAbu-Jamal |
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| Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people. |
-MartinLutherKingJr. |
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| Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane. |
-MartinLutherKingJr. |
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| Everybody loves a fool, but nobody wants him for a son. |
-West African Proverb |
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| a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless |
-JamesBaldwin |
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| The power of the ballot we need in sheer self-defence,--else what shall save us from a second slavery? |
-W. E. B. DuBois |
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| Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom. |
-MarcusGarvey |
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| There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience. |
-Stokely Carmichael |
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| To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. |
-W. E. B. DuBois |
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| The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that's where it's at. |
-Jesse Owens |
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| American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen. |
-Toni Morrison |
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| You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. |
-MalcolmX |
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| A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. |
-MartinLutherKingJr. |
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| A man can't ride your back unless it's bent. |
-MartinLutherKingJr. |
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| Culture Collection for Christmas 2009 |
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| 6391 Riverside Boulevard, Sacramento, CA (916) 427-7715 For some reason I couldn't say fraternity, but you get the point. Buy something from Culture Collection cause she won't be there next year. :(
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| Aetna Sit-In for Single Payer, Medicare for All, September 29, 2009 |
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| While we were working, drinking coffee, paying bills there were people in new
york fighting for your right to have health care. So that we can have
one less bill, more money for coffee and be less held hostage by our
jobs because they offer health care. Health Care For All! |
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