Quotes on Black History

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

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.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution

Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

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

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

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.

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

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.

It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What you do? You integrate it with cream; you make it weak. If you pour too much cream in, you won’t even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it’ll put you to sleep.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.