Speaker 1

Speaker 1

·       Never be the limited by other people’s imagination. – Dr. Mae Jemison

·       I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. – Claudette Colvin

·       Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which were overcome while trying to succeed. – Booker T. Washington

Speaker 2

Speaker 2

·       The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. – W.E.B. Du Bois

·       In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute. – Thurgood Marshall

·       What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly.  What we do as black women is take the worst situations and create from that point. – Viola Davis

Speaker 3

Speaker 3

·       Hate is too great a burden to bear.  It injures the hater more than it injures the hated. – Coretta Scott King

·       It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. – Frederick Douglass

·       Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than explore the power they have to change it. – Muhammad Ali

Speaker 4

Speaker 4

·       True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic.  It’s not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. – Arthur Ashe

·       I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. – Rosa Parks

·       To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. – Nelson Mandela

Speaker 5

Speaker 5

·       If there is no struggle, there is no progress. – Frederick Douglass You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality.  Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.” – Malcolm X

·       We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.  We are the change that we seek. – Barack Obama

·       I can accept failure.  Everyone fails at something.  But I can’t accept not trying.  – Michael Jordan

Speaker 6

Speaker 6

·       Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

·       I’m not quite sure what freedom is, but I know damn well what it ain’t.  How have we gotten so silly, I wonder. – Assata Shakur

·       If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. – Marcus Garvey

Speaker 7

Speaker 7

·       Treat everyone you meet as if they are the most important person in the world – because they are.  If not to you, then to someone; and if not today then perhaps tomorrow. -Cynthia Marshall

·       I prayed for 20 years but never received no answer until I prayed with my legs. – Frederick Douglas

·       If you judge people, you have no time to love them.  – Mother Teresa

Speaker 1

Speaker 1

·       Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion. - Muhammad Ali

·       Have a vision of excellence, a dream of success, and work like hell. – Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook

·       Racism isn’t born, it’s taught.  I have a two-year-old son.  You know what he hates?  Naps!  End of list.  – Dennis Leary.

Speaker 2

Speaker 2

·       I am America.  Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, not own; get used to me. – Muhammad Ali

·       If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. – Shirley Chisholm

·       Whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it.  Because you’ll find that when you’re free…your true self comes out.  – Tina Turner

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Speaker 3

·       Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. – Abraham Joshua Heschel

·       If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist. – Neil deGrasse Tyson

·       I’m lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger. – Serena Williams

Speaker 4

Speaker 4

·       Life is not a spectator sport.  If you spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what’s going on, you’re wasting your life. – Jackie Robinson

·       If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it. – Toni Morrison

·       Do the best you can until you know better.  Then when you know better, do better. – Maya Angelou

Speaker 5

Speaker 5

·       I had no idea that history was being made.  I was just tired of giving up. – Rosa Parks

·       The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.  – Henry Louis Gates

·       There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made. – Michelle Obama

Speaker 6

Speaker 6

·       Black history isn’t a separate history.  This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. – Karyn Parson

·       If you don’t have confidence, you will always find a way not to win. – Carl Lewis

·       If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go. – James Baldwin

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Speaker 7

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

·       You’ve to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served. – Nina Simone

·       You are where you are today because you stand on somebody’s shoulders. And wherever you are headed, you cannot get there by yourself. – Vernon Jordan

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Speaker 1

·       If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow. – Beyonce Knowles

·       A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. – Nelson Mandela

·       Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry.  It merely astonishes me.  How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company is beyond me. – Zora Neale Hurston

Speaker 2

Speaker 2

·       The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. – Ida B. Wells

·       Don’t make money your goal.  Instead, pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you. – Maya Angelou

·       There are two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. – Harriet Tubman

Speaker 3

Speaker 3

·       We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give. – Vernon Jordan

·       Champions don’t become champions when they win the event buy in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. – Alan Armstrong.

·       One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter. – James Earl Jones

Speaker 4

Speaker 4

·       If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders. – Vernon Jordan

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

·       There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. – Nelson Mandela

Speaker 5

Speaker 5

·       I don’t have time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn’t love me has to say about me.  – Viola Davis

·       I am the greatest.  I said that before I ever knew I was. – Muhammad Ali

·       The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. – James Baldwin

Speaker 6

Speaker 6

·       Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

·       Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there. – Diana Ross

·       The best way to make dreams come true is to wake up. – Mae C. Jemison

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Speaker 7

·       Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face. – Carol Moseley-Braun

·       I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves.  I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time been ashamed. – Ralph Ellison

·       Do we care to match the reality of America to its ideals? – Barack Obama