“The African race is a rubber ball.  The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise.”  ~ African Proverb.

 

"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.

 

"If there is not struggle there is not progress. Those who profess to favor freedom are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening, they want ocean without the awful roar of the many waters." ~ Frederick Douglass.

 

“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 was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.”  ~ Oprah Winfrey.