Less than this a republic has no right to withhold. American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen. History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

~William Lloyd Garrison ~Martin Luther King, Jr. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. ~Countess of Blessington

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3. ... – Dr. Mae Jemison, first African-American female astronaut. Black History Month originally began as Negro History Week in 1926. Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. ~Paul Robeson

In this country American means white. ~Robert F. Kennedy But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience. www.quotegarden.com/black-history.html The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? ~Desmond Tutu ~Abraham Joshua Heschel, c. 1963 Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril. Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past needs and deserves investigating. Drunkenness, terrible diseases, immorality, all these things have been gifts of European civilization. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide. When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. This is our challenge and our overwhelming responsibility. Wells Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

~Martin Luther King, Jr. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity. The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. And no fascist-minded people like you will drive me from it.

I for one am not ashamed of this past. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. All the negro asks is that the door which rewards industry, thrift, intelligence and character be left as wide open for him as for the foreigner who constantly comes to our country.

There comes a time when people get tired of being plunged into the abyss of exploitation and nagging injustice. As long as the colored man look to white folks to put the crown on what he say... as long as he looks to white folks for approval... then he ain't never gonna find out who he is and what he's about.

~Martin Luther King, Jr. ~Martin Luther King,  Jr. ~Toni Morrison, 1992 It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. She turned to Judge Carter and said:  "When they count the money, they do not know Negro money from white money." History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. The History of Black History Month. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness." ~Martin Luther King, Jr. The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber.... To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right. ~William Lloyd Garrison

I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator demanded that she get off the bus after paying her fare and board it again by the back door, and then drove away before she could get there. The result, among other things, has been a flood of works on gender history, black history, and ethnic history of all kinds. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

History is a relentless master. 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. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.
But now that the Negro has rejected his role as an underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity; he wants to speak for himself. If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'.
~Cissy Farenthold

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights. And so today I still have a dream. ~Mary McLeod Bethune Our responsibility as citizens is to address the inequalities and injustices that linger, and we must secure our birthright freedoms for all people.

~Ida B.

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you to go on in spite of all.

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart. Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. This is not a white man's world. February marks Black History Month, which is a time to commemorate and reflect on remarkable African American trailblazers who have left enduring legacies by igniting a desire for hope and change. ~William Hazlitt My father was a slave and my people died to build this country, and I'm going to stay right here and have a part of it, just like you.

Few of us realize that racism is man's gravest threat to man, the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason, the maximum of cruelty for a minimum of thinking. "Black history is American history."

Black History Month quotes is an annual month-long celebration in the United States. DuBois ~August Wilson, .Jr.

~W.E.B. ~Harriet Tubman, on her first escape from slavery, 1845

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. ~Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, 1992

We are not makers of history. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is no vice and no degradation in native African customs which can begin to touch the horrors thrust upon them by white masters. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. There was such a glory over everything. - Morgan Freeman quotes from BrainyQuote.com It is God's world.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. Explore our collection of motivational and famous quotes by authors you know and love. More than this he has no right to request. Page Information:

We are made by history. ~Abraham Lincoln History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.



Here are twenty quotes from some of the most influential Black men and women. In honor of Black History Month, we’ve gathered the most inspiring quotes from powerful Black leaders including Toni Morrison, Frederick Douglass, and Martin Luther King, Jr .

When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered:  "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest." Quotations: Black History. There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Everybody else has to hyphenate. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. ~Booker T. Washington, 1904 February 12th, Armstrong Association meeting, New York City ~Martin Luther King, Jr. g]