You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
-attributed to Booker T. Washington

There is no problem that we can't solve if we can corral our resources behind it. That means people, that means money, that means the good will and cooperation of a large segment of the people.
-Coretta Scott King

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

The major threat to blacks in America has not been oppression, but rather the loss of hope and absence of meaning.
-Cornel West

All we say is that South Africa preaches what it practices and practices what it preaches; America preaches one thing and practices another.
-Malcolm X

There is a use for almost everything.
-Dr. George Washington Carver

Like an individual who cannot solve a cancer problem, an alcohol problem, or a drug problem by denying it, a nation cannot deal fundamentally with racism by denying its existence. White people don't like to talk about racism because its ugly.
-Roger Wilkens

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
-W. E. B. DuBois

Until relief from oppression is granted, the only appropriate name for America is "you hypocrite!"
-Dick Gregory

The free man is the man with no fears.
-Dick Gregory