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“My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.”

“Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.”

“The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.”

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Author:Thurgood Marshall

“Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.”

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Author:Arthur Ashe

“The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.”

Source: Time Flies

“There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution”

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Author:Frederick Douglass

“Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.”

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Author:Mae Jemison

“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.”

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“The potential for greatness lives within us all.”

“You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.”

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Author:Frederick Douglass

“American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.”

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Book:Playing in the Dark

Source: Playing in the Dark

“I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.”

Source: Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

“Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.”

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Book:Race Matters

Source: Race Matters

“Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

“I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.”

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Book:Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation

Source: Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation

“Knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

Book:Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation

Source: Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation

“We are the ones we've been waiting for.”

Author:June Jordan

“Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.”

“For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.”

“You really can change the world if you care enough.”

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Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“I am the dream and the hope of the slave”

Source: Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.”

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Author:Ralph Ellison

“I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.”

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Author:Ralph Ellison

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