| A | B |
| An injustice to one, is an injustice to all | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| 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 |
| Literature is colorblind | Ralph Ellison |
| I leave you a thirst for education | Mary McCloud Bethune |
| In union (the brotherhood of sleeping car porters), there is strength | A. Phillip Randolph |
| 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 |
| 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 |