African American History Quotes
The best sayings about African American History that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.
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I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'
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Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet
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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
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I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
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The potential for greatness lives within us all.
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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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.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.
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I'm not against knowing the history of white people in the U.S. - that's not the point. The point is that there's so much greater history. We don't know about Native Americans. Very basically, we don't know that much about African American history, except that they were enslaved. You only get bits and pieces.
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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
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If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.
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We are the ones we've been waiting for.
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we are the ones we have been waiting for
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You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
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Precisely that, covering 500 years of African-American history in six hours. I've been working on this for seven years. The biggest challenge was deciding which stories to tell.
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Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
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You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.
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Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.
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The time is always right to do what is right.
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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
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