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“At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters.”

Years Lasts Race History Five Hundred Instance African American American History

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life.”

Courses History Land Mark African American American History Course Of Life

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“History teaches us no race, no people, no nation has ever been freed through cowardice, through cringing, through bowing and scraping, but all that has been achieved to the glory of mankind, to the glory and honour of races and nations was through the manly determination and effort of those who lead and those who are led.”

People Has Beens Nations Effort Race Teach History Mankind Glory Determination African American Honour Cowardice American History Manly Scraping

Book:The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. II: August 1919-August 1920

Source: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. II: August 1919-August 1920

“The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny, that nation's destiny, that race's destiny.”

Nations Race Destiny History Movement Guides African American Posts American History

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record, the world will say to you, 'You are not worthy to enjoy the blessings of democracy or anything else'.”

Ifs World Enjoy Behinds History Democracy Records Wonderful Blessing Worthy African American American History Not Worthy

Author:Carter G. Woodson

“[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of yet another unarmed black teenager gunned down under questionable circumstances.”

“From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.”

People Soul Body Nations History Flower Seeds African American Touched Liberated

Author:Jesse Jackson

“One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.”

Waiting Process History African American Who We Are

Author:Ella Baker

“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”

“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”

Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”

“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.”

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Book:An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard

Source: An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard

“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.”

Ifs World Race History Danger Tradition Factors African American Worthwhile

Book:The Mind of the Negro As Reflected in Letters During the Crisis 1800-1860

Source: The Mind of the Negro As Reflected in Letters During the Crisis 1800-1860

“Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.”

Inspiration Loses History Records Teacher Teaching African American Accomplished Retirement Biographies Black History

Author:Carter G. Woodson

“And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.”

Race History Development African American Reaching Segregation Enslavement

Book:The Mis-Education of the Negro

Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro

“What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.”

Source: Negro Makers of History

“Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.”

Source: Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

“Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.”

“You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.”

“History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.”

Humans History Blood Red African American Titles Scarlet

Author:Eldridge Cleaver

“Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in the blessings of her luxuriant soil.”

Feels Firsts America Choices Black History Successful Blessing African American Soil Ancestor Entitled Black History Descendants

Author:Richard Allen

“Africans and persons of African descent must assume the primary responsibility and leadership in historical research....if we are to continue to leave practically all important historical research and writing concerning the black race to the white man, then we must be prepared to accept, uncomplainingly, the white man's point of view.”