Every day is different, and some days are better than others, but no matter how challenging the day, I get up and live it. @ -Muhammad Ali
Rosa sat so Martin could walk, Martin walked so Barack could run, Barack ran so we all can fly.
Success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's lives. @ -Michelle Obama
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. @ -James Baldwin
Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it. @ -Barack Obama
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. @ -Madam C.J. Walker
You have to be true to who you are. @ -Kobe Bryant
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. @ -Barack Obama
If you want to fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. @ -Toni Morrison
I don't have to be what you want me to be. @ -Muhammad Ali
Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. @ -Muhammad Ali
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
Don't ever let somebody tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it. People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you you can't do it. You want something, go get it. Period. @ -The Pursuit of Happiness
Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses. @ -Kobe Bryant
Don't be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered. @ -Michelle Obama
Choose people who lift you up. @ -Michelle Obama
Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself. @ -Maya Angelou
If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!  @ -Maya Angelou
You're not going to enjoy every minute of the journey, but the success you'll find at the end will make it all worth it. @ -Muhammad Ali
My thing is that I don't give no person that much power over my path that I'm walking. Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God. @ -Nipsey Hussle
A man can't ride your back unless it's bent. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served. @ -Nina Simone
On a mission your worst enemy is idle time. @ -Nipsey Hussle
The man who has no imagination has no wings. @ -Muhammad Ali
Just learn from your mistakes.. and forgive yourself.. and better yourself. @ -Richard Allen
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
What you are thinking is what you are becoming. @ -Muhammad Ali
Character is power. @ -Booker T. Washington
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. @ -Maya Angelou
If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be to be present in the present gratefully. @ -Maya Angelou
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. @ -Mother Teresa
Success isn't about how your life looks to others. It's about how it feels to you. That's what it means to be true to yourself. @ -Michelle Obama
I have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long road. I set out on a journey of love, seeking truth, peace and understanding. I am still learning. @ -Muhammad Ali
It's a new dawn, it's a new day... and I'm feeling good. @ -Nina Simone
One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. @ -Michelle Obama
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome. @ -Maya Angelou
Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations. @ -Mae C. Jemison
When you hate, the only person that suffers is you because most of the people you hate don't know it and the rest don't care. @ -Medgar Evers
Find people who will make you better. @ -Michelle Obama
My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am. @ -Muhammad Ali
I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder. @ -Muhammad Ali
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. @ -Abraham Maslow
I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do. @ -James A. Baldwin
Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again. @ -Muhammad Ali
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be. @ -Maya Angelou
Luck is just bein' prepared at all times, so when the door opens you're ready. @ -Nipsey Hussle
What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did. @ -Nina Simone
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
It's not bragging if you can back it up. @ -Muhammad Ali
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. @ -Maya Angelou
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
Keep going. No matter what. @ -Reginald Lewis
It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice. @ -Kobe Bryant
Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great. @ -Jay Z
When you learn, teach. When you get, give. @ -Maya Angelou
If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it. @ -Zora Neale Hurston
I think that in order to be  successful, women have to figure out what they're passionate about first. No matter what you aspire to, you've got to love what you do in order to be successful at it. @ -Michelle Obama
If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years. @ -Muhammad Ali
Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground. @ -Rosa Parks
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. @ -Barack Obama
I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't. @ -Audre Lorde
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try. @ -Rosa Parks
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!  @ -Maya Angelou
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
We are powerful because we have survived. @ -Audre Lorde
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do. @ -Kobe Bryant
You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say. @ -Martin Luther King
I don't have to be what nobody else wants me to be and I am not afraid to be what I want to be. @ -Muhammad Ali
I got my own back. @ -Maya Angelou
When you're right, nobody remembers. When you're wrong, nobody forgets. @ -Muhammad Ali
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. @ -Kobe Bryant
You are the one that you are looking for. @ -Audre Lorde
I'm more focused on giving solutions and inspiration more than anything. @ -Nipsey Hussle
Don't count the days, make the days count. @ -Muhammad Ali
You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen. @ -Michelle Obama
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. @ -Maya Angelou
Just remember that you don't have to be what they want you to be. @ -Muhammad Ali
The only limitations one has, are the ones they place on themselves. @ -Muhammad Ali
We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high. @ -Michelle Obama
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. @ -Malcolm X
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
Each moment of my life I was dreaming of how great I could be, and continued working hard. Each time I closed my eyes I could see me shining bright like a sun. @ -Kobe Bryant
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. @ -Frederick Douglas
If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow. @ -Beyoncé
I feel that luck is a product of hard work. @ -Nipsey Hussle
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak. @ -Audre Lorde
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated. @ -Coretta Scott King
True success is reaching our potential without compromising our values. @ -Muhammad Ali
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. @ -Nelson Mandela
We are all in the process of becoming. @ -Audre Lorde
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. @ -Maya Angelou
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. @ -Muhammad Ali
Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. @ -Martin Luther King
We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. @ -Malcolm X
Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step. @ -Muhammad Ali
We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share. @ -Maya Angelou
When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. You reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed. @ -Michelle Obama
This is a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before. @ -Maya Angelou
Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself. @ -Muhammad Ali
Failure is an importance part of your growth... Don't be afraid to fail. @ -Michelle Obama
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. @ -Maya Angelou
Don't let anything stop you. There will be times when you'll be disappointed, but you can't stop. Make yourself the best that you can make out of what you are. The very best. @ -Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying. @ -Michael Jordan
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. @ -Shirley Chisholm
It isn't where you come from; it's where you're going that counts. @ -Ella Fitzgerald
You have as much laughter as you have faith. @ -Martin Luther King
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. @ -Maya Angelou
Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. @ -Muhammad Ali
I didn't accept it. I received it. @ -Richard Allen
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. @ -Oprah Winfrey
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. @ -Booker T. Washington
I've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself. @ -Muhammad Ali
Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly. @ -Langston Hughes
The more we help others, the more we help ourselves. @ -Muhammad Ali
We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list. @ -Michelle Obama
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. @ -Jackie Robinson
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. @ -Muhammad Ali
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. @ -Oprah Winfrey
If you believe in a cause, be willing to stand up for that cause with a million people or by yourself. @ -Otis S. Johnson
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
Heroes come and go, but legends are forever. @ -Kobe Bryant
The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them. @ -Michelle Obama
Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right. @ -Muhammad Ali
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals. @ -Booker T. Washington
Truth is powerful and it prevails. @ -Sojourner Truth
You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down. @ -Muhammad Ali
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. @ -James Baldwin
Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet. @ -Sadie Delany
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go. @ -Langston Hughes
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. @ -Muhammad Ali
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel. @ -Nina Simone
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. @ -Audre Lorde
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. @ -Nina Simone
It doesn't matter who you are, or where you came from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always. @ -Oprah Winfrey
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.  @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
We're not the cause, we're the effect. @ -Nipsey Hussle
You're either part of the solution or part of the problem. @ -Eldridge Cleaver
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. @ -Booker T. Washington
I know I'm different, but I don't think about it. @ -Nina Simone
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. @ -Maya Angelou
The time is always right to do what is right. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise, I rise, I rise. @ -Maya Angelou
Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it. @ -Ruby Bridges
Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal. @ -Connor Franta
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. @ -Audre Lorde
When I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am. @ -Michelle Obama
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false and to incur my own abhorrence. @ -Frederick Douglas
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings... @ -Malcolm X
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. @ -Martin Luther King
You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea. @ -Medgar Evers
Only in the darkness can you see the stars. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
Champions come and go, but to be legendary you got to have heart, more heart than the next man, more than anyone in the world. @ -Muhammad Ali
There is nothing a woman can't do. Men might think they do things all by themselves but a woman is always there guiding them or helping them. @ -Marjorie Joyner
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. @ -Booker T. Washington
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead. @ -James Baldwin
Healing begins where the wound was made. @ -Alice Walker
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. @ -George Washington Carver
Tolerance, inter-cultural dialogue and respect for diversity are more essential than ever in a world where peoples are becoming more and more closely interconnected. @ -Kofi Annan
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
Your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny. @ -Toni Morrison
Everything negative (pressure, challenges) is all an opportunity for me to rise. @ -Kobe Bryant
Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face. @ -Carol Moseley-Braun
People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself. @ -Bayard Rustin
My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work. @ -Rosa Parks
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are. @ -Muhammad Ali
Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us. @ -Susan L. Taylor
You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself. @ -Diana Ross
Kids know nothing about racism. They're taught that by adults. @ -Ruby Bridges
Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination. @ -Mae C. Jemison
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. @ -Muhammad Ali
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
I had no idea that history was being made.  I was just tired of giving up. @ -Rosa Parks
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone. @ -Martin Luther King
As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are. @ -Malidoma Patrice Somé
There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish. @ -Michelle Obama
Peace if possible, truth at all costs. @ -Martin Luther King
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. @ -Muhammad Ali
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. @ -Zora Neale Hurston
He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love.  @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
Slavery is dead, but the spirit which animated it still lives. @ -Frances Harper
Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever. @ -Audre Lorde
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.  @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it. @ -Zora Neale Hurston
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome. @ -Rosa Parks
I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom. @ -Rosa Parks
Justice is what love looks like in public. @ -Cornel West
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. @ -Maya Angelou
This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction. @ -Muhammad Ali
We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul. @ -Frances Harper
Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. @ -James Baldwin
We are all one - and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way. @ -Bayard Rustin
You can and should set your own limits and clearly articulate them. This takes courage, but it is also liberating and empowering, and often earns you new respect. @ -Rosalind Brewer
Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader. @ -Toni Morrison
I don't count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. That is when I start counting, because then it really counts. That's what makes you a champion. @ -Muhammad Ali
When you're dealing with something as deeply rooted as racism or bias in any society, you've got to have vigilance, but you have to recognize that it's going to take some time, and you just have to be steady, so that you don't give up when you don't get all the way there. @ -Barack Obama
Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. @ -Muhammad Ali
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 early as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit. @ -Ida B. Wells
There is hope for humanity, but in order for us to get there, we really have to interrogate not just what it takes to change laws, but what it takes to change culture that supports laws that uplift humanity and also supports laws that serve to denigrate it. @ -Alicia Garza
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.  @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. @ -Nelson Mandela
Each and every one of us is born with a clean heart. Our babies know nothing about hate or racism. But soon they begin to learn – and only from us. We keep racism alive. We pass it on to our children. We owe it to our children to help them keep their clean start. @ -Ruby Bridges
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. @ -Martin Luther King
The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much. @ -Frances Harper
Freedom has never been free. @ -Medgar Evers
If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that. @ -Michelle Obama
I don't count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they're the only ones that count. @ -Muhammad Ali
A room to myself is a luxury that I do not always enjoy. @ -Frances Harper
Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!  @ -Bessie Coleman
The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible. @ -Richard Allen
Freedom is never given; it is won. @ -A. Philip Randolph
Accomplishments have no color. @ -Leontyne Price
Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
Nobody's as powerful as we make them out to be. @ -Alice Walker
To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true. @ -Bayard Rustin
Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another. @ -Toni Morrison
The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it. @ -Langston Hughes
The proof that one truly believes is in action. @ -Bayard Rustin
Many people don't focus enough on execution. If you make a commitment to get something done, you need to follow through on that commitment. @ -Kenneth Chenault
There comes a time when people get tired of being plunged into the abyss of exploitation and nagging injustice. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that's the one thing people can't take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment. @ -Michelle Obama
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double. @ -Toni Morrison
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
Everything that is done in this world is done by hope. @ -Martin Luther King
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him @ -Booker T. Washington
I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. @ -Claudette Colvin
Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
There are years that ask questions and years that answer. @ -Zora Neale Hurston
The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now. @ -James A. Baldwin
I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know. @ -Muhammad Ali
If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money. @ -Russell Simmons
A riot is the language of the unheard. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become. @ -Muhammad Ali
The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. @ -Ida B. Wells
The function of freedom is to free someone else. @ -Toni Morrison
We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers. @ -Bayard Rustin
You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times. @ -Nina Simone
The beauty of anti-racism is that you don't have to pretend to be free of racism to be an anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself. And it's the only way forward. @ -Ijeoma Oluo
Won't it be wonderful when black history and Native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history. @ -Maya Angelou
We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness. @ -Yvette Clarke
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. @ -Frederick Douglas
I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?  @ -Langston Hughes
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation. @ -Coretta Scott King
No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in. @ -Rosa Parks
When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do. @ -Toni Morrison
Nothing will work unless you do. @ -Maya Angelou
The air is the only place free from prejudices. @ -Bessie Coleman
There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past. @ -Ernest J. Gaines
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made. @ -Michelle Obama
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. @ -Maya Angelou
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. @ -W.E.B. Du Bois
Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved. @ -Martin Luther King
Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can. @ -Arthur Ashe
There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you. @ -Muhammad Ali
If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day. @ -Frances Harper
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. @ -Audre Lorde
What counts in the ring is what you can do after you're exhausted. The same is true of life. @ -Muhammad Ali
How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it. @ -Nina Simone
There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives. @ -Audre Lorde
There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race — scientifically, anthropologically. @ -Toni Morrison
The sun is always shining someplace. @ -Muhammad Ali
No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half its citizens. @ -Michelle Obama
Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong. @ -Muhammad Ali
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' @ -Muhammad Ali
The one without dreams is the one without wings. @ -Muhammad Ali
Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back. @ -Zora Neale Hurston
The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. @ -Booker T. Washington
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me. @ -Zora Neale Hurston
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. @ -Toni Morrison
Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself. @ -Oprah Winfrey
In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist. @ -Angela Davis
If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it. @ -Sojourner Truth
I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly. @ -Bessie Coleman
I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed. @ -Nina Simone
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. @ -Oprah Winfrey
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen. @ -Martin Luther King
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you. @ -Zora Neale Hurston
Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself. @ -Tyra Banks
Racial superiority is a mere pigment of the imagination.
History has shown us that courage can be contagious, and hope can take on a life of its own. @ -Michelle Obama
Anger it's a paralyzing emotion you can't get anything done. @ -Toni Morrison
All I was doing was trying to get home from work. @ -Rosa Parks
It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. @ -Muhammad Ali
History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that. @ -Robert L. Johnson
Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it. @ -Bayard Rustin
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. @ -Martin Luther King
Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy. @ -Audre Lorde
Many of the white people [who] have been instruments in the hands of God for our good, even such as have held us in captivity, are now pleading our cause with earnestness and zeal. @ -Richard Allen
The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front. @ -Chinua Achebe
When I dare to be powerful to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. @ -Audre Lorde
None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath. @ -Marian Anderson
According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world. @ -Richard Allen
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. @ -Bayard Rustin
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark. @ -Muhammad Ali
If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize. @ -Muhammad Ali
When we're talking about diversity, it's not a box to check. It is a reality that should be deeply felt and held and valued by all of us. @ -Ava DuVernay
When we blame private prejudice, suburban snobbishness, and black poverty for contemporary segregation, we not only whitewash our own history but avoid considering whether new policies might instead promote an integrated community.
To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live. @ -Dorothy West
Our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black, and white -- and we're all precious in God's sight. @ -Jesse Jackson
Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over. @ -Robert Guillaume
The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.  @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
I used to want the words 'she tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'she did it'. @ -Katherine Dunham
Each person must live their life as a model for others. @ -Rosa Parks
Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist. @ -Frances Harper
There comes a time in every person's life when he has to choose the course his life will take. @ -Muhammad Ali
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. @ -Frederick Douglas
Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it. @ -Criss Jami
Racism is man's gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. @ -Abraham Joshua Heschel
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible. @ -Maya Angelou
I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them down. @ -Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger than its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise. @ -Marian Anderson
I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was. @ -Muhammad Ali
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. @ -Martin Luther King
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. @ -Audre Lorde
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. @ -Booker T. Washington
If I can have any impact, I want women to feel good about themselves and have fun with fashion. @ -Michelle Obama
No more senseless killings of human beings. No more seeing people of colour as less than human. We can no longer look away. @ -Beyoncé
The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image. @ -Charles W. Chesnutt
Reason is the enemy of faith. @ -Martin Luther King
If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love, then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that American dream. @ -Michelle Obama
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. @ -Muhammad Ali
It's hard to be humble when you are as great as I am. @ -Muhammad Ali
Man, if you got to ask you'll never know. @ -Louis Armstrong
I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it. @ -Toni Morrison
Hope and change are hard-fought things. @ -Michelle Obama
The very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. @ -Toni Morrison
The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think. @ -Misty Copeland
I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people. @ -Rosa Parks
There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were. @ -Nina Simone
In Harlem, black was white. You had rights that could not be denied you; you had privileges, protected by law. And you had money. Everybody in Harlem had money. It was a land of plenty. @ -Rudolph Fisher
Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. @ -Toni Morrison
Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. @ -Zora Neale Hurston
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. @ -Desmond Tutu
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. @ -Nelson Mandela
Children make you want to start life over. @ -Muhammad Ali
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. @ -Ella Fitzgerald
I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life. @ -Muhammad Ali
Prejudice is an opinion without judgment. @ -Voltaire
My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine. @ -Frances Harper
I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer. @ -Martin Luther King
The only weapon we have is our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn. @ -Bayard Rustin
What keeps me going is goals. @ -Muhammad Ali
One day our descendants will think it's incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings. @ -Franklin Thomas
My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind. @ -Nina Simone
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. @ -John Donne
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute. @ -Thurgood Marshall
The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision. @ -Bayard Rustin
My message is really that racism has no place in the hearts and minds of our children. @ -Ruby Bridges
It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win. @ -Muhammad Ali
You lose nothing when fighting for a cause... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about. @ -Muhammad Ali
Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it. @ -Rosa Parks
There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter. @ -Duke Ellington
Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument. @ -Samuel Johnson
I want to stop transforming and just start being. @ -Ursula Burns
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character–that is the goal of true education. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... So other people would be also free. @ -Rosa Parks
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
As long as we live, there is never enough singing. @ -Martin Luther King
My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do. @ -Nick Cannon
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you. @ -Nina Simone
There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.  @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. @ -Martin Luther King
Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another's uniqueness. @ -Ola Joseph
Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. @ -Muhammad Ali
Hold on to your dreams of a better life and stay committed to striving to realize it. @ -Earl G. Graves, Sr.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.  @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. @ -Nina Simone
True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue. @ -Martin Luther King
We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. Because of our involvement in humanity we must be concerned about every human being. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
I now know that experience comes to us for a purpose, and if we follow the guidance of the spirit within us, we will probably find that the purpose is a good one. @ -Ruby Bridges
I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam. @ -Medgar Evers
I get angry about things, then go on and work. @ -Toni Morrison
Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prison. They simply extended into objective reality what was already a subjective reality. Only jailers really believe in jails. @ -Richard Wright
Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught.  I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list. @ -Dennis Leary
And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce. @ -Nipsey Hussle
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong. @ -Muhammad Ali
It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe. @ -Muhammad Ali
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
Nothing good ever comes of violence. @ -Martin Luther King
Don't follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail. When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is you!  @ -Ruby Bridges
Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it. @ -Nina Simone
"Let us keep moving," I urged them, "with the faith that what we are doing is right, and with the even greater faith that God is with us in the struggle." @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. @ -Rosa Parks
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered. @ -James Weldon Johnson
I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but I know damn well what it ain't. How have we gotten so silly, I wonder. @ -Assata Shakur
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. @ -Muhammad Ali
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. @ -Rosa Parks
For while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness. @ -James Baldwin
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying. @ -Martin Luther King
None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. @ -Cornel West
We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. @ -Barack Obama
I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. @ -Morgan Freeman
