Here are some quotes by** MARTIN LUTHER KING**

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed"

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.'

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I have a dream that one day the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Seeing is not always believing."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Commitment: Quotes By Martin Luther King
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

Hope: Quotes By Martin Luther King
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope

Integrity: Quotes By Martin Luther King
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Friendship: Quotes By Martin Luther King
Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

Death: Quotes By Martin Luther King
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Commitment: Quotes By Martin Luther King
Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power

Control: Quotes By Martin Luther King
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Here are some quotes by ** MADAM C.J. WALKER**

 

• There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for if I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.

• ...I want to say to every Negro woman present, don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!

• I got my start by giving myself a start.

Here are some quotes by ** MAYA ANGELOU**

Maya Angelou

"As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them."

 

Maya Angelou

"For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place."

Maya Angelou

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

Maya Angelou

"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back."

Maya Angelou

"If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die."

Maya Angelou

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."

 

Maya Angelou

"Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time"

Maya Angelou

"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

Maya Angelou

"Nothing will work unless you do."

Maya Angelou

"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."

Here are some quotes by *** TUPAC SHAKUR ( 2PAC)***

 

"I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven."

2PAC

 

"It always happens, all the niggaz that change the world die, they dont get to die like regular people, they die violently"

2PAC

"Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. Im not the thief who grabs your purse. Im not the guy who jacks your car. Im not down with the people who steal and hurt others. Im just a brother who fights back."

2PAC

"The real tragedy is that there are some ignorant brothers out here. That's why I'm not on this all-White or all Black shit. I'm on this all-real or all fake shit with people, whatever color you are. Because niggaz will do you. I mean, there's some [foul] niggaz out there [in the streets]; the same niggaz that did Malcolm X, the same niggaz that did Jesus Christ- every brother ain't a brother. They will do you. So just because it's Black, don't mean it's cool. And just because it's White don't mean it's evil."

2PAC

"Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the greatest war of all because we all die in the end no matter how hard we fight."

2PAC

"If you walked by a street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a little to the side you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So way is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of the dirtiest circumstance and he can talk and he can sit across the room and make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how am leaning crooked to the side, u can't even see that I've come up from out of that"

2PAC

"My music is not for everyone. It's only for the stong-willed, the [street] soldiers music. It's not like party music- I mean, you could gig to it, but it's spiritual. My music is spiritual. It's like Negro spiituals, except for the fact that I'm not saying 'We shall Overcome.' I'm saying that we are overcome."

2PAC

"If you know in this hotel room they have food every day and I knock on the door. Every day they open tha door to let me see tha party, let me see that they throwin' salami, throwin' food around telling me there's no food. Every day. I'm standing outside tryin to sing my way in- "We are weak, please let us in. We're week, please let us in." After about a week tha song is gonna change to, "We're hungry, we need some food." After two, three weeks it's like "Give me some of tha food! I'm breakin down tha door." After a year it's like, "I'm pickin' the lock, comin' through the door blastin." It's like, "I'm hungry." You reached your level, you don't want any more. We asked ten years ago, we were askin' with the Panthers, we were askin' in the Civil Rights Movement. Now those who were askin' are all dead or in jail, wo what are we gonna do? And we shouldn't be angry!?"

2PAC

"If we really are saying that rap is an art form, then we got to be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you are saying, it dont matter that you didnt make them die, it just matters that you didnt save them."

2PAC

"But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to beat me. They're going to come 100 percent, so if I dont be 100 percent pure-hearted, I'm going to lose. And thats why I'm losing."

2PAC

'A coward dies a thousand deaths....a soldier dies but once.
Only God can judge me"

2PAC

'"Got shot 5 times but I'm still breathing...living proof there's a God if you need a reason.'
Free...feeling free........well what is free? "

2PAC

"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. "

2PAC

'Live by the gun, die by the gun'
but if u fall stand tall and come back for more"

2PAC

'"That which does not kill me only makes me stronger"

Tupac Shakur

Keep your head up, Legs closed, Eyes open.

2PAC

'"I'd rather die like a man than live like a coward.'"

2PAC

'"It's hard to care when no one loves you."

2PAC

"Misplaced hate makes disgrace the races."

2PAC

"i put a pistol by my head and say a prayer... i see visions of me dead, lord are you there? "

2PAC

"Picture me inside the misery of poverty No man alive has ever witnessed struggles I survived"

2PAC

"my only fear of death is coming back re-encarnated"

2PAC

"Life in the pen ain't for me 'cos i 'd rather die Don't cry through your dispair"

2PAC

"Who Can I Trust In This Cold World ? .. My Phonie Homie Had A Baby By My Ol' Girl "

2PAC

"got my diploma but i never learnd sh!t in school. mo' money, mo *itchz, mo murder foo..."

2PAC

"I was born not to make it but I did"

2PAC

'If you don't know me, don't judge me."

Tupac Amaru Shakur

"ReAl EyEs..ReALiZe..ReAl LIeS!!"

2PAC

"White Men Arnt Killing Us, Were Killing Us! Stand Up For What You Believe In"

2PAC

"they got money for wars but can't feed the poor"

2PAC

"the only promise in life is death"

2PAC

"Cuz who are we to say who lives or dies breaths or stops all these judgments on other lives needs to stop"

2PAC

"I'm responsible for what i did. I'm not responible for what every black male did. Yes! I call myself a THUG, because i grew up in the ghetto. and im still standing."

2PAC

"Time To Unwind, So Much Pressure In This Life Of Mine .. I Cry At Times, I Once Contemplated Suicide, And Would Have Tried But When I Held That Nine, All I Could See Was My Momma's Eyes, No-One Knows My Struggle, They Only See The Trouble, Not Knowing It's Hard To Carry On When No-One Loves You .."

2PAC

Here are some quotes by *** MALCOM X***

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. "

Malcolm X

"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

"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. "

Malcolm X

"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."

Malcolm X

"Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power. "

Malcolm X

"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."

Malcolm X

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. "

Malcolm X

"It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won’t even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep."
"Message to the Grass Roots," speech, Nov. 1963, Detroit

(published in Malcolm X Speaks, ch. 1, 1965).

"If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country."

(Speech, Nov. 1963, New York City.)

Here are some quotes by ***THOMAS JEFFERSON***

"Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."

Thomas Jefferson

"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. "

Thomas Jefferson

"Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. "

Thomas Jefferson

"An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens."

Thomas Jefferson

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. "

Thomas Jefferson

"Never spend your money before you have it. "

Thomas Jefferson

"Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself. "

Thomas Jefferson

"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one."

Thomas Jefferson

Here are some quotes by *** Abraham LIncoln***

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt"

Abraham Lincoln

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? "

Abraham Lincoln

"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. "

Abraham Lincoln

"Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed."

Abraham Lincoln

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. "

Abraham Lincoln

"No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar."

Abraham Lincoln

"When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one. "

Abraham Lincoln

Here are some quotes by my mother ***LAKESHIA RUFFIN***

" REMEBER ALWAYS REACH FOR THE STARS NOT THE SKY"

LAKESHIA RUFFIN

" NOTHING COMES TO A SLEEPER BUT A DREAM"

LAKESHIA RUFFIN