Quotes on Black History

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Hate is too great a burden to bear.

There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

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.'

Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid strides and causing tyrants to tremble, may America awake from the apathy in which she has long slumbered.

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.

White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our ancestors who took part in slave rebellions has been lost in the mists of time, since plantation owners did their best to prevent any written accounts of uprisings.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.