African American Quotes
250 African American Quotes
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.
Martin Luther King Jr
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
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.
Martin Luther King Jr
Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.
Martin Luther King Jr
The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community, while the aftermath of violence is tragic bitterness.
Martin Luther King Jr
The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic.
Martin Luther King Jr
Life at it’s best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.
Martin Luther King Jr
In the end, for laws to be obeyed, men must believe they are right.
Martin Luther King Jr
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr
Give us the ballot and we will write the proper laws on the books.
Martin Luther King Jr
I have conquered the fear of death.
Martin Luther King Jr
I don’t want a long funeral.
Martin Luther King Jr
I may be crucified for my beliefs, and if I am, you can say, ‘He died to make men free.’
Martin Luther King Jr
Christ gave us the goals, and Mahatma Gandhi provided the tactics.
Martin Luther King Jr
Real weeds disrupt the orderly growth of stately wheat.
Martin Luther King Jr
We’ve come here to our nation’s capital to cash a check.
Martin Luther King Jr
Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be as armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should have the strength of deep analysis beneath them to be able to challenge the clever sophistries of our opponents.
Martin Luther King Jr
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and as long as we try, the more we are going to have war in this world.
Martin Luther King Jr
Violence, even in self-defense, creates more problems than it solves. Only a refusal to hate or kill can put an end to the chain of violence in the world and lead us toward a community where men can live together without fear. Our goal is to create a beloved community and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.
Martin Luther King Jr
To attempt radical reform without adequate organization is like trying to sail a boat without a rudder. Recognizing that no army can mobilize and demobilize and remain a fighting unit, we will have to build far-flung, workmanlike and experienced organizations in the future if the legislation we create and the agreements we forge are to be ably and zealously superintended.
Martin Luther King Jr
There can be unity when there isn’t uniformity.
Martin Luther King Jr
But the danger point is that we will become so involved in the profit-making and profit-getting aspects . . . that we will forget certain ends of life. There is always the danger that we will become more concerned about making a living than making a life - that we will not keep that line of division between life and one’s livelihood.
Martin Luther King Jr
And I’m simply saying this morning, that you should resolve that you will never become so secure in your thinking or your living that you forget the least of these. . . In some sense, all of us are the least of these, but there are some who are least than the least of these. I try to get it over to my children early, morning after morning, when I get a chance. As we sit at the table, as we did this morning in morning devotions, I couldn’t pray my prayer without saying, God, help us, as we sit at this table to realize that there are those who are less fortunate than we are. And grant that we will never forget them, no matter where we are. And I said to my little children, I’m going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don’t ever want you to forget that there are millions of God’s children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don’t want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be.
Martin Luther King Jr
Across the miles they joined hands, and took a firm, forward step. It was a step that rocked the richest, most powerful nation to its foundations.
Martin Luther King Jr
We shall overcome.
Martin Luther King Jr
Prayer is a marvelous and necessary supplement to our feeble efforts, but it is a dangerous substitute.
Martin Luther King Jr
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music, sweep streets as Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.’
Martin Luther King Jr
Never let the odds keep you from pursuing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.
Satchel Paige
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Satchel Paige
Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Satchel Paige
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you was?
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?
Satchel Paige
I ain’t never had a job. I just always played baseball.
Satchel Paige
Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Satchel Paige
Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
They want me to be old so I give ‘em what they want. Seems they get a bigger kick out of an old man throwing strikeouts.
Satchel Paige
Avoid fried meats, which angry up the blood. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society – the social ramble ain’t restful.
Satchel Paige
There ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.
Satchel Paige
Throw strikes. Home plate don’t move.
Satchel Paige
[On Josh Gibson] You look for his weakness and while you’re looking for it, he’s liable to hit forty-five home runs.
Satchel Paige
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