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African American Quotes

“I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.”

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Author:Maya Angelou
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“We feel the beauty of nature because we are part of nature and because we know that however much in our separate domains we abstract from the unity of Nature, this unity remains. Although we may deal with particulars, we return finally to the whole pattern woven out of these.”

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Book:The Biology of the Cell Surface
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“Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. There are millions of African-Americans now cycling in and out of prisons and jails or under correctional control or saddled with criminal records. In major American cities today, more than half of working-age African-American men either are under correctional control or are branded felons, and are thus subject to legalized discrimination for the rest of their lives.”

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Author:Michelle Alexander
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“Since the nation's founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die, but then are reborn in new form, tailored to the needs and constraints of the time.”

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Book:The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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“To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.”

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Book:Running tough: memoirs of a football maverick
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“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

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Author:Frederick Douglass
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“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

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Author:Frederick Douglass
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“We are the ones we've been waiting for.”

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Author:June Jordan
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“Start where you are, use what you have.”

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Author:Arthur Ashe
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“Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.”

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Author:Muhammad Ali
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“Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr., were. Not many Americans have even heard of Alice Paul, Howard W. Smith, and Martha Griffiths. But they played almost as big a role in the history of women’s rights as Marshall and King played in the history of civil rights for African-Americans. They gave women the handle to the door to economic opportunity, and nearly all the gains women have made in that sphere since the nineteen-sixties were made because of what they did.”

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Author:Louis Menand
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