Activist Quote by Dolores Huerta

We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as noble and…

— Henry Louis Gates

I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need…

— J. C. Watts

I'm an activist. I'm a proud activist. So I want to be someone who is pro-black and pro-Africa and still be somebody that has…

— Kat Graham

Fortunately, the leadership of black immigrant communities has always been present in all black liberation movements from leaders like Marcus Garvey to Shirley Chisholm…

— Opal Tometi

There never has been a desire on the part of the government that the struggle of Black people in America should be linked to…

— Louis Farrakhan

I think it's a bit of a myth that black Americans need one leader. We're not a monolith. And now that legal segregation and…

— John Legend

I don't believe we have ever had a Black leader that was so widely accepted among the masses of people, as well as the…

— Louis Farrakhan

Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill…

— Assata Shakur

The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their…

— Ziggy Marley

I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American President of the United States. And that has to show that…

— Eric Holder

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it…

— Arthur Ashe

There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid is genuine…

— Uzodinma Iweala