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Black Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was…
- In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the…
- This is the great new problem of mankind. We have inherited a large house, a great ‘world house’ in which we have to live together–…
- Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary and beautiful as…
- Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries and see the…
- Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.
- The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of…
- Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort…
- As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension…
- There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up....…
- I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator demanded that she…
- The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward…
- [W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for…
- When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well.... But now that the Negro…
- Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.
- In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white…
- We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in…
- Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt…
- White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words of the ancient…
- Let the Negro march. Let him make pilgrimages to city hall. Let him go on freedom rides. And above all, make an effort to understand…
- Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a…
- I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
- If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have…
- And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
- Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s. — Dan Aykroyd
- It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over… — Erykah Badu
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
- Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James A. Baldwin
- The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. — James A. Baldwin
- They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be… — Afrika Bambaataa