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“I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.”
― Kwame Nkrumah

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
― James A. Baldwin

“We face neither East nor West; We face forward”
― Kwame Nkrumah

“The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.”
― Kwame Nkrumah

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“Evil prevails when good people do nothing.”
― Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary

“Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid”
― Valery Legasov

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin

“I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.”
― James Baldwin

“It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
― James Baldwin

“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. ”
― James Baldwin

“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“People can cry much easier than they can change.”
― James Baldwin

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
― Nelson Mandela

“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
― Nelson Mandela

“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

“I am the captain of my soul.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
― Angela Y. Davis

“Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.”
― Angela Davis

“The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?”
― Angela Y. Davis

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
― Angela Davis

“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?

“If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.”
― Angela Davis

“We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.”
― Angela Davis

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson

“Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.”
― Lyndon Baines Johnson