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“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end -- which you can never afford to lose -- with the discipline to confront the most...
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....
“Freedom is never granted, it is won. Justice is never given, it is exacted.” -A. Philip Randolph Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was a civil rights...
"Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest....
“People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast...
“No one nominated Harriet Tubman to her purpose, to her courage, to her mission. She did not say 'I am not a congressperson or the president, so how...
“Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never did and it never will.” - Frederick Douglass Letter to Gerrit Smith, 30 March 1849...
Born on September 25, 1952, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and raised in a racially segregated South, Bell Hooks (born Gloria Jean Watkins) grew...
Born in Texas during 1936, Barbara Jordan, the first black congresswoman from the South, grew up during the Jim Crow Era. Barbara was known...
Malcolm X (1925 – 1965) embodied the true meaning of resilience, leadership, and transformation. At a time when African Americans experienced racial...
Fannie Lou Hamer was born on October 6, 1917, to Mississippi sharecroppers. She was the youngest of 20 children. At the young age of six, she...
From 1933 to 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt served as the First Lady of the United States alongside her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt....