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This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to cele

This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between people of color and not of color. – Lynn Swann

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Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed. – Lynn Swann

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I believe that todays players who are Christians feel that its important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith. – Lynn Swann

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The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness. – W.E.B. DuBois

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When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. – Harriet Tubman, on her first escape from slavery, 1845

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[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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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can. – Arthur Ashe

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