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"The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen."

--Alice Walker

"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself--the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us--that's where it's at."

--Jesse Owens, Blackthink (1970)

"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."

--Marcus Garvey

"Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear."

--Mary Church Terrell

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."

--Oprah Winfrey

"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, "Still I rise," And Still I Rise (1978)...

"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude."--Colin Powell...

"My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order."--Al Sharpton...

"Happiness doesn't depend nearly as much on our circumstances as it does on our relationships, our attitudes, and our beliefs. It comes not as much from what we have and acquire, but from what we accomplish in the way of...

"A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue."--Cornel West...

"I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."--Michael Jordan, I Can't Accept Not Trying (1994)...

"Do it right or don't do it at all. That comes from my mom. If there's something I want to do, I'm one of those people that won't be satisfied until I get it done. If I'm trying to sing...

"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...

"Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all."--Toni Morrison...

"My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts."--Andrew Young...

"We are to mirror right here on Earth, what's already being done in Heaven."--Reverend Kirbyjon Caldwell, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly (1998)...

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."--Harriet Tubman...

"Each person must live their life as a model for others."--Rosa Parks...

"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."--Frederick...

"All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other."--August Wilson...

"Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life."--W.E.B DuBois...

"When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul."--Langston Hughes...

"When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language."--James Earl Jones, Voices and Silences (1993)...

"The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom."--Phyllis Wheatley...

"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects...

"An envious heart makes a treacherous ear."--Zora Neale Hurston...

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."--Bill Cosby...

"I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet."--Jesse Jackson...

Celebrate Black History Month with a new inspiring quote every day from a beloved black spiritual leader....

“Truth is powerful and it prevails.”--Sojourner Truth...