African American History Month Quotes
The best sayings about African American 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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I am the dream and the hope of the slave
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Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
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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.
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.
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Hardy Kruger Actor -
Harvey Fierstein Actor -
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Henry Norman Hudson Author
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Harry Mathews Author -
Hector Bianciotti Author -
Henry H. Bauer Author -
Henry Wood Conductor -
Harry Dexter White Economist -
Harry Gordon Johnson Economist -
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Henry De la Beche Geologist -
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Henry Melvill Priest
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Harry Herbert Miller Sailor -
Harry Elfont Screenwriter -
Heather Nova Singer-songwriter -
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Heidi Heitkamp United States Senator -
Helen Merrill Vocalist -
Henry Sambrooke Leigh Writer
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