| A | B | 
|---|
| 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 |