“Finally, let understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.” PeopleMenTogetherWinningBlackJusticeWhiteMen And WomenHispanicBlack White Author:Bernie Sanders
“Rise up Black Men, and take your stand. Reach up black men and women and pull all nature’s knowledge to you. Turn ye around and make a conquest of everything North and South, East and West. And then we you have wrought well, you will have merited God's blessing, you will become God's chosen people and naturally you'll become leaders of the world.” PeopleMenWorldWellsTurnsBlackLeaderBlessingMen And WomenWestSouthEastChosenConquestEast And WestNorth And SouthBlessing You Author:Marcus Garvey
“I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common. If you see it, black and white people, both sides look to see the differences, they don't look at what they have together. Men and women, and old and young, and so on. And this is a disease of the mind, the way I see it. Because in actual fact, men and women have much more in common than they are separated.” PeopleIfsMenWayMindLooksFactsTogetherYoungSidesBlackDifferencesWhiteCommonDiseaseMen And WomenDividesBlack And WhiteBoth SidesAstounded Author:Doris Lessing
“Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered while registering black voters in Mississippi in 1964, and Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 during the Selma march for voting rights.” PeopleMenFightingBlackRightsMen And WomenVoteDiedLifetimeVotingMarchVotersMississippiAndrewRight To VoteKu Klux KlanViolaGoodman Author:Jeff Greenfield
“Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who make no nuisance of themselves in the world.” PeopleMenWorldWayBlackHistoryRecordsMen And WomenDisasterHolesTriumphFollyWorld HistoryMuteBlack HoleNuisance Author:Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel
“An enlightened society is one where all people - the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate, the black and the white, men and women - live happily as children of the same Lord. Thus experiencing the brotherhood of men under the fatherhood of God.” PeopleMenChildrenBlackWhitePoorLordRichEthicsMen And WomenEnlightenedBrotherhoodFatherhoodWhite ManIlliterateBrotherhood Of ManEnlightened Society Author:Pandurang Shastri Athavale
“The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.” MenSoulBodyCausesBlackProgressWrittenBloodMen And WomenInstance Book:Emma Goldman Source: Emma Goldman
“We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black men must forgive black women for our own sometimes dubious choices, divided loyalties, and lack of belief in their possibilities. Only when our sons and our daughters know that forgiveness is real, existent, and that those who love them practice it, can they form bonds as men and women that really can save and change our community.” KnowsMenRealSometimesFormChoicesBeliefWomenBlackCommunityWhitePracticeDoubtPossibilitySonRacismDaughterMen And WomenSlaveryForgivingLoyaltyConfusionDividedWhite ManBlack WomenOur CommunityOur DaughterDubious Book:Saving Our Sons Source: Saving Our Sons
“It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history.” MenYoungBlackWhiteStudyMen And WomenAmerican HistoryWhite ManAsianImperativesAsian American Author:Maya Angelou
“That's just like America. It's made up of lots of different people. We're all different colors, different ages, we do different jobs -- but it takes all of us black people, white people, brown people, men and women, young and old, working in the factories, working in the fields, working in offices, working in stores -- it takes a lot of different kinds of people to get the job done for America.” PeopleMenKindMadeDifferentDoneAgeJobsAmericaYoungBlackWhiteFieldsColorOfficeMen And WomenStoresBrownBlack PeopleFactoriesDifferent KindsDifferent PeoplesYoung And OldGet The Job DoneDifferent ColorsDifferent JobsDifferent Ages Author:Jesse Jackson
“I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.” PeopleKnowsMenHelpingBlackActingSupportLike YouMen And WomenTiredHelping Each Other Author:Bell Hooks