One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.
Franklin Thomas
Author
Note: Yes for this I hope and pray! - Henry Ford
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
Oprah Winfrey
If you are called to be a leader you must leave the comfort of the crowd. It may be more comfortable to blend in, but the conviction of your calling demands that you STAND OUT!
Danita Harris
Television News Anchor
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
Bob Marley - 1945 - 1981
Jamaican singer-songwriter, musician and guitarist
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
Eldridge Cleaver
American Writer, Political Activist
Early leader of the Black Panther Party
One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
Barbara Jordan
Lawyer, Educator, Civil Rights Activist
Former U.S. Congressional Representative from Texas
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We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. 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.
Carter G. Woodson - Historian
The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
Ernest Gaines, African-American author
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Oprah Winfrey
What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
W. E. B. Du Bois
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – Professional Basketball Player
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Arthur Ashe – 1943-1993, Professional Tennis Player
For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Dr. Maya Angelou, Author and poet
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself--the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us--that's where it's at.
Jesse Owens, U.S. track and field athlete
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Colin Powell
Son of Jamaican Immigrants
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Former Secretary of State
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
Thurgood Marshall,
1st African American on the U.S. Supreme Court
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
Maya Angelou
I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
Former NBA Player
Member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
Businessman
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
Franklin P. Jones - 1774-1848
Engineer - Publisher
