Notable African-American Quotes

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A spiritual renaissance is what is needed among young African-American people. Any attempt at building racial and cultural institutions in our communities without a spiritual renaissance–a vibrant embrace of faith–will produce symbols but not substance.

Anthony A. Parker

Neither the old=time slavery, nor continued prejudice need extinguish self-respect, crush manly ambition or paralyze effort…
Paul Robeson

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. Alice Walker

We must focus on those things within us that allow others to control us, know those who would empower themselves to control us and understand that the forces can be brown male or female, white male or female, as well as our selves.
Andrea Canaan
It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
Booker T. Washington

The cost of liberty is less than the cost of repression.
W.E.B.  Du Bois

If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The major threat to blacks in America has not been oppression, but rather the loss of hope and absence of meaning.
Cornel West

In your lifetime if you come up with one good idea you have accomplished a great deal.
Max Roach

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