Best social-justice & african-american Quotes

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

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Book:A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“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

“Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.”

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Author:James A. Baldwin

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

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Book:The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction

Source: The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction

“There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”

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Book:Address of Booker T. Washington, Principal of the Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute: Before the National Educational Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 30, 1904

Source: Address of Booker T. Washington, Principal of the Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute: Before the National Educational Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 30, 1904

“One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”

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Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.”

Source: Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest

“Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the less fortunate--while others are short-changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible.”

“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

“Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved by color, but by the brain, by education, by willpower, by moral courage.”

“Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.”

“You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.”

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Author:Eldridge Cleaver

“Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought here to Jamestown colony in 1619, a year before the Mayflower landed. But that choice has never been left up to us.”

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Book:Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity

Source: Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity

“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.”

“Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.”

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Book:What Black People Should Do Now: Dispatches from Near the Vanguard

Source: What Black People Should Do Now: Dispatches from Near the Vanguard

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

“From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.”

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Author:Bill Frist

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