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An injustice to one, is an injustice to all | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Ain't I a woman? | Sojourner Truth |
Follow the north star | Harriet Tubman |
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles...overcome while trying to succeed. | Booker T. Washington |
The Souls of Black Folk can best be elevated through intellectual pursuits | W.E.B. DuBois |
Keep the hope alive! | Jesse Jackson |
We can find dignity and honor by going back home to our original home -- Africa | Marcus Garvey |
Agitate, agitate, agitate. There is no progress without struggle | Frederick Douglas |
I know why the caged bird sings | Maya Angelou |
Until the killing of a black mother's son becomes as important as the killing of a white mother's son, we cannot rest | Ella Baker |
I leave you a thirst for education | Mary McCloud Bethune |
In union (the brotherhood of sleeping car porters), there is strength | A. Phillip Randolph |
I've known rivers: ancient dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. | Langston Hughes |
Schools that claim to be separate but equal are anything but | Thurgood Marshall |
Black Power! | Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Toure) |
Power to the People! | Huey Newton |
I shall not be moved from my seat on the bus | Rosa Parks |
Go down Moses, Way down to Egypt's lan', And tell ol' Pharaoh, to let--my--people go! Let my people go! | Paul Robeson |
Stop the lynching! | Ida B. Wells-Barnet |
My country tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing | Marion Anderson |
The achievements of Negros properly set forth [in history books] will crown them as factors in human progress and modern civilization | Carter G. Woodson |
If I can do it, you can do it! | Ophrah Winfrey |