I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
Beat me, hate me, you can never break me.
I don’t care if the whole world is against you or teasing you or saying you are not gonna make it. Believe in yourself, no matter what.
As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Stand for right, even if you stand alone.
Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?
Never surrender, it’s all about the faith you got: don’t ever stop, just push it ’till you hit the top and if you drop, at least you know you gave your all to be true to you, that way you can never fall.
You’ve got to find a way to survive because they win when your soul dies.
To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.
Your silence will not protect you.
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change.
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
Think for yourself and question authority.
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.
I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.
Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
I’m going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I’m not going to be what you want me to be.
Black man, you are on your own.