3. Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
-- Arthur Ashe quoted in Sports Illustrated
4. Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice.
-- Ray Charles
5. The past is a ghost, the future a dream. All we ever have is now.
-- Bill Cosby
6. There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution...
-- Frederick Douglass
7. Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
-- Quincy Jones
8. Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
-- Barbara Jordan
9. Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
10. The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself-the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us-that's where it's at.
-- Jesse Owens, Blackthink (1970)
11. I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.
-- Rosa Parks
12. Have a vision. Be demanding.
-- Colin Powell
13. Be black, shine, aim high.
-- Leontyne Price
14. God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
-- African Proverb
15. Freedom is never given; it is won.
-- A. Philip Randolph in keynote speech given at the Second National Negro Congress in 1937
16. When I found I had crossed that line, [on her first escape from slavery, 1845] I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything.
-- Harriet Tubman
