"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." 

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— Barack Obama

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life." 

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— Marcus Garvey

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

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 — Maya Angelou

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

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— Tina Turner 

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made." 

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— Michelle Obama

"There comes a time when people get tired of being plunged into the abyss of exploitation and nagging injustice."

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— Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Don't agonize, organize.” 

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— Florynce Kennedy

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

 

– Frederick Douglass.

"Character is power." 

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— Booker T. Washington

"We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right."

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— Aretha Franklin

"We have a wonderful history behind us…and it is going to inspire us to greater achievements."

 

— Carter G. Woodson

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”

 

– Alice Walker