Blackprint Project Quote of The Day: October 2014

There exists today a chance for Blacks to organize a cooperative state within their own group. By letting Negro farmers feed Negro artisans, and Negro technicians guide Black home industries and Black thinkers plan this integration of cooperation, while Black artists dramatize and beautify the struggle, economic independence can be achieved. To doubt that this is possible is to doubt the essential humanity and the quality of brains of Black People.Quote of the Day: October 31, 2014
"There exists today a chance for Blacks to organize a cooperative state within their own group. By letting Negro farmers feed Negro artisans, and Negro technicians guide Black home industries and Black thinkers plan this integration of cooperation, while Black artists dramatize and beautify the struggle, economic independence can be achieved. To doubt that this is possible is to doubt the essential humanity and the quality of brains of Black People."

W.E.B. Dubois
We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force.
Quote of the Day: October 30, 2014
We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force."

Mary Mcleod Bethune
What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them."

Toni Morrison
What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.
Quote of the Day: October 29, 2014
We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
Quote of the Day: October 28, 2014
We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less."

Ralph Bunche
You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman."

Eldridge Cleaver
You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
Quote of the Day: October 27, 2014
Give light and people will find the way.
Quote of the Day: October 24, 2014
Give light and people will find the way."

Ella Baker
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression."

Toni Morrison
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.
Quote of the Day: October 23, 2014
Wake up Afrika let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let Afrika be a bright star among the constellation of nations.
Quote of the Day: October 22, 2014
Wake up Afrika let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let Afrika be a bright star among the constellation of nations."

Marcus Garvey
The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishment's hand. They make the racist secure in his racism."

Huey Newton
The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishment's hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.
Quote of the Day: October 21, 2014
You can not make yourself whole again by brooding on hundred percent of the time on the darkness of the world. We are the light of the world.
Quote of the Day: October 20, 2014
You can not make yourself whole again by brooding on hundred percent of the time on the darkness of the world. We are the light of the world."

Ivan Van Sertima
There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience."

Stokely Carmichael
There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
Quote of the Day: October 17, 2014
We ask for nothing that is not right, and herein lies the great power of our demand.
Quote of the Day: October 16, 2014
We ask for nothing that is not right, and herein lies the great power of our demand."

Paul Robeson
Bigotry's birthplace is the sinister backroom of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings."

Bayard Rustin
Bigotry's birthplace is the sinister backroom of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.
Quote of the Day: October 15, 2014
The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.
Quote of the Day: October 14, 2014
The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people."

Huey Newton
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle."

Stokely Carmichael
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
Quote of the Day: October 13, 2014
The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
Quote of the Day: October 12, 2014 #FergusonOctober Bonus
The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution."

Huey Newton
The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments and of sweet success."

Roy Wilkins
The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments and of sweet success.
Quote of the Day: October 10, 2014
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.
Quote of the Day: October 9, 2014
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
My Alma mater was books, a good library...I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity."

Malcolm X
My Alma mater was books, a good library...I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Quote of the Day: October 8, 2014
It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
Quote of the Day: October 7, 2014
It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend."

Nikki Giovanni
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind."

Frederick Douglass
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
Quote of the Day: October 6, 2014
A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a Black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a Black mind.
Quote of the Day: October 3, 2014
A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a Black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a Black mind."

Nikki Giovanni
Truth burns up error."

Sojourner Truth
Truth burns up error.
Quote of the Day: October 2, 2014
In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed.
Quote of the Day: October 1, 2014
In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed."

Ella Baker

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