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1. “The time is always right to do what is right.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

2. “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” — Booker T. Washington

3. “You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.” — Rosa Parks

4. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” — Frederick Douglass

5. “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” — Langston Hughes

6. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” — Rosa Parks

7. “If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important — and you do that by being genuine and humble.” — Nelson Mandela

8. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela

9. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker

10. “Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.” — Madam C.J. Walker

11. “I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.” — Desmond Tutu

12. “You are your best thing.” — Toni Morrison

13. “There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.” — Rita Dove

14. “Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave.” — Maya Angelou

15. “Just don’t give up what you’re trying to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” — Ella Fitzgerald

16. “I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.” — Rosa Parks

17. “I don’t know what the future holds, but I do know that I’m going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate.” — Billie Holiday

18. “Life has two rules: Number one, never quit. Number two, always remember rule number one.” — Duke Ellington

19. “I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.” — James Baldwin

20. “Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” — Coretta Scott King

21. “Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.” — Shirley Chisholm

22. “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

23. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” — Harriet Tubman

24. “Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts — good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.” — Oprah Winfrey

25. “You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.” — Shirley Chisholm

26. “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” — Audre Lorde

27. “We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation’s greatness.” — Yvette Clarke

28. “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” — Shirley Chisholm

29. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” — Maya Angelou

30. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” — Maya Angelou

31. “History has shown us that courage can be contagious, and hope can take on a life of its own.” — Michelle Obama

32. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou

33. “If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.” — Marcus Garvey

34. “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” — Ida B. Wells

35. “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.” — Barack Obama

36. “Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.” — Coretta Scott King

37. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” — Maya Angelou

38. “Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” — George Washington Carver

39. “You can never know where you are going unless you know where you have been.” — Amelia Boynton Robinson

40. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” — Maya Angelou

41. “We are the change that we seek.” — Barack Obama

42. “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

43. “You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.” — Shirley Chisholm

44. “The very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work.” — Toni Morrison

45. “The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” — W.E.B. Du Bois

46. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

47. “Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.” — Dr. Mae Jemison

48. “The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” — Malcolm X

49. “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.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

50. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” — Muhammad Ali

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