Black History Month Inspirational Quotes

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  • Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

  • I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

    World Tomorrow "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)
  • It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

    Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt
  • Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

  • In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

  • Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

    Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964
  • Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

    Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.86, Macmillan
  • Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.

    Cornel West (2000). “Race Matters”, p.16, Beacon Press
  • I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'

    Statement on the Articles of Impeachment, delivered 25 July 1974, House Judiciary Committee
  • Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet

    Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.214, Kodansha America
  • you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

  • I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

  • You really can change the world if you care enough.

  • I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

    "Roundtable: NSA, Freeman on Black History Month". "Roundtable" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. December 19, 2005.
  • In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

    The Guardian, January 29, 1992.
  • The potential for greatness lives within us all.

    "50 stunning Olympic moments No35: Wilma Rudolph's triple gold in 1960" by Rob Bagchi, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.
  • Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

  • I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.

    "Harriet, The Moses of Her People". Book by Sarah H. Bradford, 1886.
  • Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press
  • I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.

    Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.153, Feminist Press at CUNY
  • Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

  • 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.

    Booker T. Washington (1901). “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”
  • 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, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan
  • Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

    "Dreams" l. 1 (1929)
  • Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

    "50 stunning Olympic moments No35: Wilma Rudolph's triple gold in 1960" by Rob Bagchi, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.
  • Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

    Twitter post from Aug 14, 2011
  • Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.

  • Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

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

    "Understanding Cultural Diversity in Today's Complex World". Book by Leo Parvis, p. 54, 2010.
  • The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

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