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“Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved by color, but by the brain, by education, by willpower, by moral courage.”

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Jose Celso Barbosa

Jose Celso Barbosa was a renowned Brazilian physician, born on July 27, 1857, and died on September 21, 1921. He held a significant position in the Brazilian medical community and made outstanding contributions to public health and the study of tropical diseases. more

“What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. He wants opportunity to make real what the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights say, what the Four Freedoms establish. While he knows these ideals are open to no man completely, he wants only his equal chance to obtain them.”

Source: Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents

“The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people believe that something is being achieved when in reality the artificially integrated circles are a soporfic to the blacks while salving the consciences of the few guilt-stricken whites.”

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“Without a visual identity, we have no community, no support network, no movement. Making ourselves visible is a political act, making ourselves visible is a continual process.”

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