Blacks Quote by Jesse Jackson

The movement for black lives isn't just about black people. Black liberation has never just been about black people. It's been about a fight…

— Patrisse Cullors

And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this…

— Angela Davis

Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that…

— Ella Baker

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation…

— Louis Farrakhan

I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I believe in freedom for everyone, not just the black man.

— Bob Marley

Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other people's freedom as well. The victory of oppressed people anywhere…

— Assata Shakur

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

— Patrisse Cullors

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the…

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

Blacks are supposed to rejoice whenever our way of life becomes more mainstream. We seldom do. For we see in it a sanctioning that…

— Lena Williams

Any movement that has been successful in this country for Black liberation has included old and young, men and women, and people not of…

— Nate Parker

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