Quote by African Proverb
The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the g

The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise. – African Proverb

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I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit. – Ida B. Wells

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Black History

We are the wrong people of the wrong skin in the wrong continent and what in the hell is everybody being reasonable about? – June Jordan

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Black History

No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. – Booker T. Washington

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Black History
[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Black History

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