Quote of the Day > March Quotes

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"Those who commit the murders write the reports." Ida B. Wells March 31

"If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable." June Jordan March 30

"I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me." Sojourner Truth March 29

"We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves." Nikki Giovanni March 28

"We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose." Octavia Butler March 25

"The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face." Toni Cade Bambara March 24

"Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes." Audre Lorde March 23

"If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?" Fannie Lou Hamer March 22

"I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules." Ella Baker March 21

"Where the women go, the culture goes." Phylicia Rashad March 18

"Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable." Toni Morrison March 17

"If your dream only includes you, it's too small." Ava DuVernay March 16

"When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is you!" Ruby Bridges March 15

"Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground." Rosa Parks March 14

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you can earn it and win it in every generation." Coretta Scott King March 11

"Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe." Myrlie Evers-Williams March 10

"America has the laws and the material resources it takes to ensure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity." Shirley Chisholm March 9

"Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!" Bessie Coleman March 8

"Never limit yourself because of other's limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination." Mae Jemison March 7

"Tomorrow may be fair, however stormy the sky of today." Lewis Howard Latimer March 7

"If the house is to be set in the order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past" John Hope Franklin March 3

"It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves." Assata Shakur March 1

"We are powerful because we have survived" Audre Lorde March 2

"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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