Black History Quotes

The time is always right to do what is right. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. – Martin Luther King Jr.

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. – Barack Obama

The time will come when men will not only remember, but will learn from, the deeds of the past. – Marcus Garvey

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. – Martin Luther King Jr.

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. – Malcolm X

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition they have overcome to reach their goals. – Dorothy Height

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. – Maya Angelou

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. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. – Martin Luther King Jr.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. – Andre Gide

Black History Quotes part 2

If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward. – Martin Luther King Jr.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. – Alice Walker

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. – Booker T. Washington

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it. – Malcolm X

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. – Frederick Douglass

I am where I am because of the bridges that I crossed. Sojourner Truth was a bridge. Harriet Tubman was a bridge. Ida B. Wells was a bridge. Madame C.J. Walker was a bridge. Fannie Lou Hamer was a bridge. – Oprah Winfrey

You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. – Shirley Chisholm

The best way to predict your future is to create it. – Peter Drucker

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Nelson Mandela

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. – Booker T. Washington

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. – Audre Lorde

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. – Marie Curie

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. – Martin Luther King Jr.

I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me. – Muhammad Ali

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. – Jesse Owens

It isn’t where you came from, it’s where you’re going that counts. – Ella Fitzgerald

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. – Martin Luther King Jr.

If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. – Martin Luther King Jr.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. – Martin Luther King Jr.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. – Stephen Covey

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. – Rosa Parks

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. – Nelson Mandela

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated. – Coretta Scott King

The only way to deal with violence is to confront it. – Angela Davis

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. – Maya Angelou

Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure. – Aisha Tyler

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself. – Alice Walker

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. – Stephen Ambrose

It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop. – Confucius

Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is. – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt