Top 10 Black History Quotes 2017
1. “Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.” !
Dr. Mae Jemison, first African-American female astronaut
2. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” — President Barack Obama
3. “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality…. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
4. “The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
W.E.B. Du Bois
5. “Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.” — Maya Angelou
6. “Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”
Coretta Scott King
7. “Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.” — Barbara Jordan
8. “The time is always right to do what is right.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
9. “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
Booker T. Washington
10. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
Bonus:
“We all have dreams. In order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline and effort.”
Jesse Owens, world record-setting Olympic athlete
Black History Month, also known as African-American History Month in America, is an annual observance in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom for remembrance of important people and events in the history of the African diaspora. It is celebrated annually in the United States and Canada in February, and the United Kingdom in October
source of quotes : 1-http://www.ibtimes.com/black-history-month-quotes-2016-35-inspirational-sayings-african-american-leaders-2279589
2-http://parade.com/260134/linzlowe/15-inspiring-quotes-for-black-history-month-freedom-is-never-given/
music [NCR] : https://youtu.be/siCmqvfw_1g
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