Freedom Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Be as proud of your race today as our as our fathers were in days of yore. We have beautiful history, and we shall…

— Marcus Garvey

Can I just tell you, I think it's the most beautiful thing about young people today, it gives me so much hope for the…

— Viola Davis

some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.

— Beth Moore

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.

— Anonymous

You might say that I was the first and caused others to awaken to the sense of their duty in helping deserving causes for…

— Madam C. J. Walker

Being a young black man, observing and sensing the need for race equality and women's rights, I wrote about what was important to me.

— Curtis Mayfield

I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put…

— Jesse Jackson

If you write about race in 1850, you end up talking about race today because in many ways, so little has changed.

— Colson Whitehead

I think that part of my optimism comes from the belief that we as a people could actually, regardless of all the disadvantage of…

— Barack Obama

Happy Black History Month! Despite setbacks and stereotypes, I'm proud of my roots and history.

— Anonymous

I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking.

— Amber Hollibaugh

I remember being asked for the first time about my race, and it really took me by surprise, just that it was a point…

— Francesca Hayward