Leadership Quote by Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

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

“Blacks must learn that true freedom from poverty is available only through hard work and perseverance, not through affirmative action programs, protesting, or blind…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

“You speak of black excellence, yet you're at the forefront of canceling black people and their businesses. Instead of helping, supporting, advising, or constructively…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

“The sober truth is that the most important civil rights battles were fought and won four decades before the Obama presidency. The black underclass…

— Jason L. Riley

“There is no Black person here who can afford to wait to be led into positive action for survival. Each one of us must…

— Audre Lorde

“Any ministry to black people which is not designed to effect their empowerment is designed to perpetuate their enslavement.”

— Anonymous

“The key to the future for blacks is a commitment to America and its ideals of freedom, personal responsibility, the free enterprise system, and…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

“Power is never given, it's taken." It is an open secret that there exists a conflict between a new generation of young black leadership…

— Wesley Lowery

“When black folk say “Black Lives Matter,” they are in search of simple recognition. That they are decent human beings, that they aren’t likely…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Inspire, celebrate, and empower our Black males. Support them in becoming confident, intelligent, strong, capable, and powerful Black men, teens, and boys. There’s GREAT…

— Stephanie Lahart

“Respectability politics is the dogged belief that if black people just shape up, dress right, and act right, racists would suddenly have a dramatic…

— Nikesh Shukla

But blacks make little to no progress and, worse, the preoccupation with injustice only leaves them eternally inconsolable and cut off from their own…

— Shelby Steele