Since Black History Month is coming up Feb. 1st, 2014. Here for you is 10 inspirational Black History quotes from inspirational Black Speakers and entrapreneurs: 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 I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment; it only increased my desire to be free, and set me thinking of plans to gain my freedom. -Frederick Douglas The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. -W.E.B. Du Bois We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice. -Carter Woodson The past is a ghost, the future a dream. All we ever have is now. -Bill Cosby Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power. -Barbara Jordan For I am my mothers daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart. -Mary McLeod Bethune God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed. -African Proverb Freedom is never given; it is won. -A. Philip Randolph 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
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 23:55:10 +0000
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