March 04, 2023
Black History Timeline / Black History Month Quotes pt-1
Although Black History Month has been compressed into one month , there are noteable , famous sayings and Black History Quotes that are timeless. SoulTic Magazine navigates through our Black History Timeline to share a few Black History Month Quotes that you may find to be uplifting and motivational.
1. 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 )
2. Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave , I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise. ( Maya Angelo )
3. Freedom is never given ; it is won. ( A . Philip Randolph )
4. Hate is too great a burden to bear . It injures the hater more than it injures the hated . ( Coretta Scott King)
5. God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed . ( African Proverb )
6. I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up , this diminshes fear . ( Rosa Parks )
7. For I am my mother’s daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart . ( Mary MeLeod Bethune )
8. Darkness cannot drive out darkness ; only light can do that . Hate cannot drive out hate ; only love can do that . ( Martin Luther King , Jr . )
9. Do not call for black power or green power . Call for brain power . ( Barbara Jordan )
10. The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals . The struggles within yourself — the invisisible , invitable battles inside all of us –that’s where it;s at . ( Jesse Owens )
11 . The past is a ghost , the future a dream . All we ever have is now . ( Bill Cosby )
12 . 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 )
13 . 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 G . Woodson )
14 . The cost of Liberty is less than the price of repression . ( W .E. B . Du Bois )
15 . 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 ) .