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“I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.”

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Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
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“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey
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“I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey
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“It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What you do? You integrate it with cream; you make it weak. If you pour too much cream in, you won’t even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it’ll put you to sleep.”

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Author:Malcolm X
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“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.”

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Book:Negro Makers of History
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“If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.”

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Author:Mary McLeod Bethune
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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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“Negro poverty is not white poverty. Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences - radiating painful roots into the community and into the family, and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice, and present prejudice.”

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Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
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“If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.”

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Book:We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
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“Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.”

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Book:We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
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“In the biological sense, race does not exist.”

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Book:We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
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“It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.”

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Book:We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
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“Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.”

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Book:We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
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“If not as a true human, let me tell you as a Biologist, color of the skin does not define an individual’s intelligence – it does not define an individual’s ambitions - it does not define an individual’s dreams – and above all, it does not define an individual’s character.”

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Book:We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
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“When Pope Pius XII died, LIFE magazine carried a picture of him in his private study kneeling before a black Christ. What was the source of their information? All white people who have studied history and geography know that Christ was a black man. Only the poor, brainwashed American Negro has been made to believe that Christ was white, to maneuver him into worshiping the white man. After becoming a Muslim in prison, I read almost everything I could put my hands on in the prison library. I began to think back on everything I had read and especially with the histories, I realized that nearly all of them read by the general public have been made into white histories. I found out that the history-whitening process either had left out great things that black men had done, or some of the great black men had gotten whitened.”

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Author:Malcolm X
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“Offsprings of Africa (Black History Sonnet) If a black family lives long enough in a cold climate, in about 100 generations or so, their descendants will be born white. This is how the white people were born, Because we all come from a black mother. No matter where we live on earth, We're all Africans - our homeland, Africa. Till you get this anthropological fact, You are but a traitor to earth. Black History is World History, We are all offsprings of Africa.”

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Book:Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
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“To my Black brothers and sisters, choose faith. As difficult as it is, choose faith—the kind of faith that we know without works is dead. The faith that raises awareness, educates the community, advocates, cares for the widows and feeds the orphans. Choose the faith that is compelled to action, but not controlled my anger.”

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Author:Andrena Sawyer
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“All the Black people in our neighborhood were transplants from the South, and so they had inherited a kind of slave mentality, which was based on fear. When you hear stereotypes about Black people who can't swim or are afraid of dogs, it's because for so many generations, they were afraid of swimming across bodies of water to flee, or afraid of dogs because they were scared of being chased. Those fears are epigenetic - they burrow deep into the subconscious, creating an internal paradigm of rules that you forget can be broken. Systemic oppression created walls that can feel impossible to scale, but so, too, does the inherited belief that you are victim. People hold on to that victim mentality so fiercely; it becomes a defining feature of their identity. Nobody's going to take that away from them. It runs too deeply to take out and examine under the light.”

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Book:The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir―The Transformational Power of Facing Yourself Fearlessly
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“Contrary moods of violence, withdrawal, separatism, and nationalism conform to a theory of black history that Rustin has developed, a theory that makes a great deal of sense to anyone familiar with the story of the black man in white America, especially the post-slavery part of the story. It is a cyclical theory. The model of the cycle begins with an upsurge of of hopes and expectations inspired by bold promises and commitments. This is followed by a phase of disappointed hopes and betrayed promises, which is followed in turn by frustration, despair, withdrawal, and separatism of one variety or another. Each phase produces leaders and doctrines that accommodate the accompanying mood. The third phase takes many forms, but some of them invariably attract support from reactionary elements of white society.”

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Book:Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin
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