"You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage."
~H. Rap Brown
"We have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance." ~Angela Davis
"This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up."
~H. Rap Brown
"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
"There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it."
~Ida B. Wells
"Black people know what white people mean when they say 'law and order'."
~Fannie Lou Hamer
"Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process."
~Thurgood Marshall
"In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it."
~A. Philip Randolph
"Institutional practices, it seems, perpetuate themselves mostly by their invisibility."
~James L. Farmer, Jr.
"You can't win what you don't fight for."
~Eleanor Holmes Norton
"We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us."
~John Lewis
"The proof that one truly believes is in action."
~Bayard Rustin
"Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny."
~Huey Newton
"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
"If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night."
~Angela Davis
"Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future."
~Alice Walker
"It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow."
~Ralph Ellison
"History is written by winners."
~Alex Haley
"We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest."
~Wallace Thurman
"We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence."
~Spike Lee
"Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do."
~H. Rap Brown

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