Ertharin Cousin
“Let us be the crazy ones, the ambitious ones, the one who see beyond the limits of today.” ~~ Ertharin Cousin,Attorney & Global Hunger Relief Leader
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Ella Baker
“Strong people don’t need strong leaders.”~~ Ella Baker,Civil Rights Activist
Anna Julia Cooper
“The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class—it is the cause of humankind.”~~ Anna Julia Cooper,Author, Scholar, and Activist
W.E.B. Du Bois
“We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, and the number of people who can and do read worthwhile books.”~~ W.E.B. Du…
Martin Luther King Jr.
“God, Grant that this tragic midnight of man’s inhumanity to man will soon pass and the bright daybreak of freedom and brotherhood will come into being.” ~~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,Baptist Minister & Civil Rights Icon
Malcolm X
“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”~~ Malcolm X,Minister & Civil Rights Activist
Sojourner Truth
“Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life’s light to be determined by the darkness around me.”~~ Sojourner Truth,Abolitionist…
Ida B. Wells
“One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.”~~ Ida B. Wells,Journalist, Sociologist, and Civil Rights Activist
W.E.B. Du Bois
“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”~~ W.E.B. Du Bois,Sociologist & Civil Rights Activist
Anna Julia Cooper
“The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class — it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.”~~ Anna Julia Cooper,Author, Educator, Sociologist, Speaker, and Activist in “A Voice from the…
Bayard Rustin
“When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.”~~ Bayard Rustin,Civil Rights Organizer & Activist
Dorothy Height
“We must always be a strong presence, an unrelenting force working for equality and justice until the freedom gates are fully open.”~~ Dorothy Height,Civil Rights & Women’s Rights Activist
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