Famous Black History Quotes

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

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. – Harriet Tubman

We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. – Maya Angelou

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Steve Jobs

When they go low, we go high. – Michelle Obama

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

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

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

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

Famous Black History Quotes part 2

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

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

I am where I am because of the bridges that I crossed. So, don’t burn bridges you may have to cross again. – Oprah Winfrey

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

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. – Maya Angelou

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. – Malcolm X

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

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. – William James

The future is not a gift. It is an achievement. – Robert F. Kennedy

I did my best, and God did the rest. – Hattie McDaniel

The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. – Viola Davis

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go if you really want to go. – Langston Hughes

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

Just because a person dresses well and speaks with poise and grace don’t mean she ain’t gonna pull out a piece of ghetto at you. – Claudia Rankine

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

I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a one-size-fits-all standard for happiness. – Kanye West

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Rosa Parks

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou

Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. – James Baldwin

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity, there is beauty and there is strength. – Maya Angelou

The function of freedom is to free someone else. – Toni Morrison

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

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. – Bell Hooks

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

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization. – Mahatma Gandhi

If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything. – Malcolm X

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C.S. Lewis

The only way to deal with injustice is to confront it head-on. – Bryan Stevenson

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. – Audre Lorde

The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think. – David Icke

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