Blackprint Project Quote of The Day: Best of 2014

September 2014

"The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors." Frederick Douglass September 30, 2014

"Quick, sunrise, come! Sunrise out of Africa, quick, come!" Langston Hughes September 29, 2014

"If the white man gives you anything--just remember when he gets ready e will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves." Fannie Lou Hamer September 26, 2014

"Nonviolence is fine as long as it works." Malcolm X September 25, 2014

"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 September 24, 2014

"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake." Frederick Douglass September 23, 2014

"There is also the danger in our culture that because a person is called upon to give public statements and is acclaimed by the establishment, such a person gets to the point of believing that he is the movement." Ella Baker September 22, 2014

"The Black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers--weak, empty fingers. The only time the Black fist has significance is when there's money inside. There's where the power lies." Jesse Owens September 19, 2014

"Truth is on the side of the oppressed." Malcolm X September 18, 2014

"You're not obligated to win, you're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day." Marian Wright Edelman September 18, 2014

"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem." Martin Luther King September 16, 2014

"Our position was: if you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves." Huey Newton September 15, 2014

"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion." Frederick Douglass September 12, 2014

"The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness." Marcus Garvey September 11, 2014

"We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed." Fred Hampton September 10, 2014

"A little learning, indeed, is a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people." Frederick Douglass September 9, 2014

"We are moving from one state of organization to another, and we shall continue until we have thoroughly lifted ourselves in the organization of government." Marcus Garvey September 8, 2014

August 2014

"They subjugate first, if the weaker peoples will stand for it; then exploit, and if they will not stand for subjugation nor exploitation, the other recourse is extermination." Marcus Garvey August 20, 2014

"Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks." Stokely Carmichael August 19, 2014

"The Negro who lives on the patronage of philanthropists is the most dangerous member of our society, because he is willing to turn back the clock of progress when his benefactors ask him so to do." Marcus Garvey August 18, 2014

"We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing." George Bernard Shaw August 8, 2014

"What this country needs is more unemployed politician." Angela Davis August 7, 2014

"Let me just say: peace to you if you're willing to fight for it." Fred Hampton August 6, 2014

"Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals." Ralph Bunche August 5, 2014

"We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity." Fred Hampton August 4, 2014

"Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards." Charles W. Chesnutt August 1, 2014

July 2014

"All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was." Toni Morrison July 31, 2014

"You never miss the water til the well runs dry..." Peter Tosh July 30, 2014

"Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo- obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other." Angela Davis July 29, 2014

"I am not a politician...I only suffer the consequences." Peter Tosh July 28, 2014

"If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit." Stanley Crouch July 25, 2014

"You must change in order to survive." Pearl Bailey July 24, 2014

"When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak." Audre Lorde July 23, 2014

"Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough." Mary McLeod Bethune July 22, 2014

"Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up." Huey P. Newton July 21, 2014

"Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within." Philip Randolph July 18, 2014

"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground." Zora Neale Hurston July 17, 2014

"I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk." Oprah Winfrey July 16, 2014

"For over three hundred years the white man has been our oppressor, and he naturally is not going to liberate us. We have to liberate ourselves." Marcus Garvey July 15, 2014

"Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking." Nina Simone July 14, 2014

"I'm sick and tired of Black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease." Ralph Abernathy July 11, 2014

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." Arthur Ashe July 10, 2014

"I am not opposed to the white race as charged by my enemies. I have no time to hate any one. ALL my time is devoted to the up-building and development of the Negro Race." Marcus Garvey July 9, 2014

"Life is no brief candle to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." George Barnard Shaw July 8, 2014

"The first need of a free people is to define their own terms." Stokely Carmichael July 7, 2014

"The paradox of education is precisely this- that as one begins to become conscious, one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated." James Baldwin July 4, 2014

"Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go." James Baldwin July 3, 2014

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started." Marcus Garvey July 2, 2014

"A race without authority and power is a race without respect." Marcus Garvey July 1, 2014

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