You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

-- Malcom X

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

-- Fannie Lou Hamer

We will all, at some point, encounter hurdles to gaining access and entry, moving up and conquering self-doubt; but on the other side is the capacity to own opportunity and tell our own story.

— Stacey Abrams

Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.

— James Baldwin

There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.

— Ida B. Wells

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

-- Madam C.J. Walker

​He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

— Muhammad Ali

If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

-- Shirley Chisholm

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

-- James Baldwin

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.

-- Ida B. Wells

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

— Nelson Mandela

The job of the conscious is to make the unconscious conscious.

― Stokely Carmichael

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

-- Huey P. Newton

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

-- Malcom X

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

― Booker T. Washington

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

— Thurgood Marshall

Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

— Dr. Mae Jemison

Speak up, speak out, get in the way. Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.

-- John Lewis

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

— Sojourner Truth