Black history month Quote by Arthur Ashe Download Open image “Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.” — Arthur Ashe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Black history month Excuse Racism
Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I am not obliged to tackle racism wherever and whenever it occurs, nor am I qualified to do so. — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
It's not enough to just not be racist. You've got to be anti-racist. You've got to hold everybody accountable. — Kyler Murray Copy Share Image
You know obviously my stand on racism is that it's unacceptable and that we should always stand up to it. — Adam Goodes Copy Share Image
It is easy to come up with the 'No to racism' campaign but when you don't do anything concrete then that does not help. — Antonio Rudiger Copy Share Image
Racism is something that is taught. We, as a people, need to work to get past that. — Booker T Copy Share Image
I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way,… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities. — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1. — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters. — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me. — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that. — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
“Acknowledging that my skin was, in fact, Cocoa as it is, would have destroyed their narrative about who I really was. Therefore they had… — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
“Any ministry to black people which is not designed to effect their empowerment is designed to perpetuate their enslavement.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Happy Black History Month everyone. I challenge you blacks to change how other races view us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment; it only increased my… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I love Black History Month and celebrating my ancestral roots, but not just my blackness, which is so beautiful. But my Tahitian and my… — Jordan Fisher Copy Share Image
Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the… — Marty Meehan Copy Share Image
“Sociologically, politically, psychologically, spiritually, it was never enough for James Baldwin to categorize himself as one thing or the other: not just black, not… — Aberjhani 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
“There is no black history month, the entire human race calendar is black.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image