Black History Quotes - Page 3

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

One of the things I recognized early on, doing whatever studies of black history I have, is that even though black folks were transported as slaves, into servitude, when they were carried out of Africa they left empty-handed, but they didn't leave empty-headed. They carried with them the culture they knew, the culture they had, and that culture reconstituted itself in all the places they went.

Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.

If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.

I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.

Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.

Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.

We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice.

No library of American business achievement is complete without the story of Arthur G. Gaston. . . . Black Titan is a long overdue contribution to the recording of not just black history, but American history.

There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. [...] 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.

Let us not become the evil that we deplore.

But George Lucas is carrying about Black actors, about Black men, about Black history, which really incorporates and tells all of history. You can't take one race out without eliminating every other race if you're going to tell the story of the human race.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

We’ve gone through the names—Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that’s an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who determines what is black?

Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.

Miracles happen all the time. We're here, aren't we?

It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.

When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

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.