16 Insightful Quotes From America’s Greatest Black Thinkers And Scholars
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“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
– W. E. B. Du Bois
“Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.”
– Benjamin Banneker
“The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.”
– Ida B. Wells
“I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.”
– Booker T. Washington
“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.”
– Marcus Garvey
“Being oppressed means the absence of choices.”
– bell hooks
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
– Frederick Douglas
“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
-Malcolm X
“We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.”
– Angela Davis
“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”
– Audre Lorde
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
“Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
– Toni Morrison
“People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.”
– James Baldwin
“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”
– Cornel West
“We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.”
– Michelle Alexander
“The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths.”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates