INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES BY FAMOUS BLACK LEADERS

“Freedom is never given; it is won.” – A. Philip Randolph

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

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“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

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

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

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

“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.

“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

“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

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

“When you know better, you do better.” – Maya Angelou

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

“I don’t have to be what you want me to be.” – Muhammad Ali

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass I LOST FRIENDS QUOTES

“Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” – Alice Walker

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

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Shirley Chisholm

“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.” – Maya Angelou

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

“If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.” – Toni Morrison

“We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.” – Angela Davis

“I am my best work – a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.” – Audre Lorde

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

“The only way to deal with this life is to find something that is bigger than yourself and then give your life to it.” – John Lewis

“I am where I am because of the bridges that I crossed. Sojourner Truth was a bridge. Harriet Tubman was a bridge. Ida B. Wells was a bridge. Madame C.J. Walker was a bridge.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer

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