Quote of the Day > February Quotes

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"Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do." H. Rap Brown February 29

"We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence." Spike Lee February 26

"We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest." Wallace Thurman February 25

"History is written by winners." Alex Haley February 24

"It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow." Ralph Ellison February 23

"Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future." Alice Walker February 22

"If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night." Angela Davis February 19

"If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don't deserve to win." Fred Hampton February 18

"Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny." Huey Newton February 17

"The proof that one truly believes is in action." Bayard Rustin February 16

"We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us." John Lewis February 15

"You can't win what you don't fight for." Eleanor Holmes Norton February 12

"Institutional practices, it seems, perpetuate themselves mostly by their invisibility." James L. Farmer, Jr. February 11

"In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it." A. Philip Randolph February 10

"Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process." Thurgood Marshall February 9

"Black people know what white people mean when they say 'law and order'." Fannie Lou Hamer February 8

"There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it." Ida B. Wells February 5

"In a world of wolves one should go armed, and one of the most powerful defensive weapons within the reach of Negroes is the practice of race first in all parts of the world." Marcus Garvey February 4

"This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up." H. Rap Brown February 3

"We have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance." Angela Davis February 2

"You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage." H. Rap Brown February 1

"Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is. Never let your enemies choose your enemies for you." Assata Shakur

"You have to take power. No one gives it." Frederick Douglass

"Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a Black man of crime." W.E.B. DuBois

"You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed." Frederick Douglass

There comes a time in every person's life when he has to choose the course his life will take." Muhammad Ali

"A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect." W.E.B. Dubois

"You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it." Huey Newton

"Want won't kill you half as quick as worry will." Zora Neale Hurston

"But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed." Nikki Giovanni

"If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don't see." James Baldwin

"History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life." Marcus Garvey

"If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it." Nikki Giovanni

"To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man." Marcus Garvey

"I am invisible understand, simply because people refuse to see me" Ralph Ellison

"The one without dreams is the one without wings." Muhammad Ali

"If you get up everyday and you don't learn you are a fool." Marcus Garvey

"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change." Muhammad Ali

"The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely." Lorraine Hansberry

"Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step." Muhammad Ali

"Black love is Black wealth." Nikki Giovanni

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." Desmond Tutu

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