“In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“So on June 16, 1970, history was made in Newark. Ken Gibson became the first black mayor of a major Northeastern city.” — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The youth were to be trained to be the vanguard of the next battlefront, whatever that was. I knew within my heart… — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
“Their story, as the Delany sisters like to say, is not meant as "black" or "women's" history, but American history. It belongs… — Amy Hill Hearth Copy Share Image
A woman needs someone she can trust, someone who laughs when she laughs, but who has different ideas so she can learn… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until… — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards.… — Ralph Abernathy Copy Share Image
“By the middle to the end of the 1970s, Black Power as we envisioned was a dream deferred. And I was no… — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
When I say there should not be a BET channel or a Black History Month, I'm saying we deserve more. I just… — Stacey Dash Copy Share Image
“A conquering force sustained the old folks and now centers us. Forming a collective of comeback saints, let us rally behind them… — Deborah L. Parker Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to have sex - you don't have to have a baby when you're 16. You don't have to do drugs.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“We were still confined to that corner. More and more people joined us, some black and some white. On the second day,… — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t figure out if it was fate or faith that had brought me there. How funny those two words sounded when… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
“I once two beautiful children playing together. One was a fair white child; the other was her slave, and also her sister.… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“THE NEXT DAY WAS RAIN-SOAKED and smelled of thick sweet caramel, warm coconut and ginger. A nearby bakery fanned its daily offerings.… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
“I love long regarded my country as a secret, as a land half-won, its story half-told. It was as if the past… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go… — Daymond John Copy Share Image
The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
Black History Month is when our nation comes together to reflect on the Black community's immense contributions to our country's storied history. — Byron Donalds Copy Share Image
The depiction of Black history in British schools and on TV has mainly been trauma and struggle-based. — Judi Love Copy Share Image
I went to school with a lot of kids whose fathers and mothers were part of the El Paso black history. — Ron Stallworth Copy Share Image
We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness. — Yvette Clarke Copy Share Image
This black history month, learn about the people you don't know a lot about. Go deeper than 'I have a dream.' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How a member of the church—one who had read the Good Lord’s bible—could sit so calmly and watch a man be led… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Use Black History month as an opportunity to tell your family history as far back as you can go. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
