Evidence Quote by Carter G. Woodson

Liberia can move on and break from the past. That is very important for us to try to achieve our development goals and reconcile…

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history.…

— Malcolm X

“Black-Liberians has subjected and mistreated each other before some of the Foreigners ever got hold. The problems that exist are not with Foreigners but…

— Henry Johnson Jr

Liberia just needs to go through this one political transition and it can really take off. Everything's in place now. We cannot afford to…

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you're average and white, honey, you can go far. Just…

— Annie Elizabeth Delany

Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.

— Anonymous

“Liberians must stay away from "CHARITY" donations from the WEST, and EMPOWER THEMSELVES. Charity gives but doesn't transform. We can only "CHANGE" our country…

— Henry Johnson Jr

The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily.…

— John Henrik Clarke

Our Liberian neighbors are friends, they are workers, and they are taxpayers. They have played by the rules, they have worked exceptionally hard, they…

— Dean Phillips

Slavery is not African history. Slavery interrupted African history.

— Mutabaruka

All peoples are struggling to blast a way through the industrial monopoly of races and nations, but the Negro as a whole has failed…

— Marcus Garvey

Negroes aren't seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100 percent strong…

— Jackie Robinson