George Washington Carver=How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
Shirley Chisolm=You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
Frederick Douglass=Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
Frederick Douglass=If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
W. E. B. DuBois=For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.
W. E. B. DuBois=If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
James L. Farmer Jr.=Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination.
James L. Farmer Jr.=I had not dreamed that in a few short weeks a new kind of civil war would rock the nation - war not "without violence," but with violence on only one side.
Althea Gibson=Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.
Martin Luther King Jr.=I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King Jr.=Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
Thurgood Marshall=Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
Thurgood Marshall=None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
Jesse Owens=Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.
Rosa Parks=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=I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
Colin Powell=Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'
Sidney Poitier=I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.
Jackie Robinson=I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. . . All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
Jackie Robinson=Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
Harriet Tubman=I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
Harriet Tubman=I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
Booker T. Washington=The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
Malcolm X=I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
Malcolm X=You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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