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I think that we are all deeply, deeply committed to the liberation of black people. And so, when you put people together who have…

— Alicia Garza

“Above all else, our politics initially sprang from the shared belief that Black women are inherently valuable, that our liberation is a necessity not…

— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.

— Dorothy Height

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute…

— Alan Watts

“Eventually, some black thinkers believe, this "separation" may be the shortest route to an authentic communication at some future date when blacks and whites…

— John Howard Griffin

Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of…

— Anonymous

Black Lives Matter is one iteration of a much larger struggle to fight for black people's freedom.

— Patrisse Cullors

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and…

— Angela Davis

For the first time in our history, every spectrum of black thought is in the same room on the same page with a cause…

— Louis Farrakhan

“There is a notion out there that black people enjoy the Sisyphean struggle against racism. In fact, most of us live for the day…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“To be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to…

— Barack Obama

It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of…

— Shelby Steele