 Quote of the Day: August 31
"The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us."
Richard Wright  Quote of the Day: August 28, 2015
"Freedom is never given; it is won."
A. Philip Randolph  Quote of the Day: August 27, 2015
"And in order for the Negro to fulfill his duty as a citizen it was often necessary that he fight for his self-affirmed right to fight."
Ralph Ellison  Quote of the Day: August 26, 2015
"There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you."
Amiri Baraka  Quote of the Day: August 25, 2015
"Wishing, of all strategies, is the worst."
Andrew Young  Quote of the Day: August 24, 2015
"Play the game, but don't believe in it - that much you owe yourself...play the game, but raise the ante, my boy. Learn how it operates, learn how you operate."
Ralph Ellison  Quote of the Day: August 21, 2015
 Quote of the Day: August 20, 2015
"In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it."
A. Philip Randolph  Quote of the Day: August 19, 2015
"I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble."
Bayard Rustin  Quote of the Day: August 18, 2015
"You have to start living for something that's worth dying for."
Andrew Young  Quote of the Day: August 17, 2015
"The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others."
Julian Bond  Quote of the Day: August 14, 2015
"Truth is a letter from courage!"
Zora Neale Hurston  Quote of the Day: August 13, 2015
"To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker."
Frederick Douglass  Quote of the Day: August 12, 2015
""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  Quote of the Day: August 11, 2015
"You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution."
Huey Newton  Quote of the Day: August 10, 2015
"If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe."
James Baldwin  Quote of the Day: August 7, 2015
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."
Malcolm X  Quote of the Day: August 6 2015
"Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're Black."
James Baldwin 
"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the
ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own
abhorrence."
Frederick Douglass  Quote of the Day: August 4, 2015
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose."
James Baldwin  Quote of the Day: August 3, 2015
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground."
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