When I liberate others, I liberate myself.

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.

— Fannie Lou Hamer

What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his…

— Dick Gregory

Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become…

— Frantz Fanon

The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them.

— Jacob Bronowski

In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice racism then…

— Max Lerner

In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still…

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not…

— Nellie L. McClung

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

— Mark Twain

All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.

— Octavio Paz

No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an…

— Jimmy Carter

The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.

— Confucius

The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers…

— David Walker

Why should anyone think a white skin superior in evaluating the qualities of human life? I did not really admire a white skin so…

— Charles Lindbergh

Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.

— Thomas a Kempis