Black History Month Quotes
The best sayings about Black History Month 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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It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. 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.
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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
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Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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I have a dream, and a plan, to combine the commercial possibilities of Valentine's Day with the substance and meaning of black history month. I call it: Blackentine's Day.
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Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
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Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.
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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.
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I pay homage and respect to Bobby Womack [for Black History Month] knowing that he passed last year... Him being one of those artists that I have really sampled so much and just been so inspired by... You know, he is the original ‘soul man.’
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I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.
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I don't celebrate Valentine's Day. It gets in the way of Black History Month. Cupid didn't free any slaves.
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Black History Month should be celebrated everyday. It's a month that's kind of sad to me, because I am reminded of the struggles that people before us had to go through for us to be able to live comfortably today.
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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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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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You really can change the world if you care enough.
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I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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The potential for greatness lives within us all.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Books were my pass to personal freedom.
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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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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.
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Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
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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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Top Authors
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Robert Maillet Actor -
Robert Holden Author -
Robbie Merrill Bass player -
Robert G. Allen Businessman -
Robert Reed Film actor -
Robert M. Fresco Film Producer
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Robert Sietsema Food critic -
Robert Casey Former Governor of Pennsylvania -
Robert Henry Grant Former Member of Provincial Parliament
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Robert Muldoon Former Prime Minister of New Zealand -
Robert Brault Free-lance writer
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Robert Low Journalist -
Rod Liddle Journalist -
Robert Stone Novelist -
Rod Dixon Olympic athlete -
Robert T. Bakker Paleontologist -
Robert Pinsky Poet -
Robert B. Laughlin Professor -
Robert L. Millet Professor -
Rob Dyrdek Skateboarder -
Robin Givens Television actress -
Robert Mondavi Winemaker -
Robert Fisk Writer -
Robert McCrum Writer -
Roberta Gellis Writer -
Roberto Arlt Writer
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