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“Like the ideals of freedom and democracy, the right to stand one's ground was held to be an exclusively white prerogative. Even when threatened by a mob, black people were to back down or submit—never to stand up for themselves.”
― Charles Cobb Jr.

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#2

“Experience taught then and teaches now that blacks should never underestimate the level of violence that could be brought to bear against them by white authority, and that they should never overestimate the prospects for receiving understanding and support from white people.”
― Charles Cobb Jr.

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#3

“No woman has to be respectable to be valuable.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

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#4

“Black people are apparently responsible for calming the fears of violent cops in the way women are supposedly responsible for calming the sexual desires of male rapists.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

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#5

“Can I miss people I’ve never met? Because I think I do.”
― Erika L. Sánchez, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

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#6

“Mothers are not supposed to be more beautiful than their daughters, and daughters are not supposed to die before their mothers.”
― Erika L. Sánchez, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

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#7

“One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: alone, comfort, communication, community, community-service, compassion, empathy, encourage, encouragement, give, giving, help, helping-others, helping-out, kindness, letting-them-in, lonelyness, lost, love, missions, novels, reaching-out, selflessness, service, share, sharing, stories, tears-together, transparency, vulnerability

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#8

“Rise and rise again until lambs become lions”
― Robin Hood

tags: give, hood, life, motivation, never, never-give-up, rise, robin, robin-hood, up

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#9

“Think the tree that bears nutrition:
though the fruits are picked,
the plant maintains fruition.
So give all the love you have.
Do not hold any in reserve.
What is given is not lost; it shall return.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: all-you-need-is-love, fruit, fruition, give, giving, harmony, in-love, inspiration, inspirational, kamand, kamand-kojouri, keep-loving, kojouri, lost, love, love-is-all-you-need, love-poem, love-quote, loved, lover, loving, maintain, nutrition, plant, poem, quote, relationship, reserve, return, trees

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#10

“Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.”
― Adelaide Hoodless

tags: community, education, inspiriational, proverb, sharing, women

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#11

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
― Jack London

tags: charity, dogs, sharing

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#12

“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”
― James Baldwin

tags: artists, exposing, love, lovers, sharing, truth

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#13

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
― Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play

tags: charity, compassion, helping-others, kindness

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#14

“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: compassion, empathy

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#15

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness

tags: compassion, humanity, love, mankind

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#16

“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”
― John Holmes

tags: charity, compassion, friendship, generosity, helping-others

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#17

“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, By Any Means Necessary

tags: philosophy, politics

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#18

“Because racism was alive and real as shit. It was everywhere and all mixed up in everything, and the only people who said it wasn’t, and the only people who said, “Don’t talk about it” were white. Well, stop lying. That’s what I wanted to tell those people. Stop lying. Stop denying. That’s why I was marching. Nothing was going to change unless we did something about it. We! White people!”
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

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#19

“History can only teach its lesson if it is remembered.”
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

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#20

“Both the segregationists and the assimilationists think there is something wrong with Black people and that’s why Black people are on the lower and dying end of racial inequity. The assimilationists believe Black people as a group can be changed for the better, and the segregationists do not. The segregationists and the assimilationists are challenged by antiracists. The antiracists say there is nothing wrong or right about Black people and everything wrong with racism. The antiracists say racism is the problem in need of changing, not Black people. The antiracists try to transform racism. The assimilationists try to transform Black people. The segregationists try to get away from Black people.”
― Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

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#21

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

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#22

“When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”
― Dylan Thomas

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#23

“A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

tags: freedom, inspirational, politics, revolution, struggle

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#24

“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: achievement, fame, struggle

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#25

“there comes a time in every African American's life when they discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance and such loyalty has not pledged allegiance and loyalty to you.”
― James Baldwin

tags: american-history, black-history, black-power, black-pride

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#26

“He licked his lips. ‘Well, if you want my opinion-‘
‘I don’t, ‘ She said. ‘I have my own.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

tags: opinion, self-belief, thoughtful

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#27

“If your child is killed by police, if the water in your community is poisoned, if a mockery is made of your grief, how do you feel? Do you want to be calm and quiet? Do you want to forgive in order to make everyone else comfortable? Or do you want to scream, to yell, to demand justice for the wrongs done? Anger gets the petitions out, it motivates marches, it gets people to the ballot. Anger is sometimes the only fuel left at the end of a long, horrible day, week, month, or generation.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot

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#28

“Politeness as filtered through fragility and supremacy isn't about manners; it's about a methodology of controlling the conversation.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

tags: racism, white-fragility

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#29

“It is the White Man who creates the black man. But it is the black man who creates.”
― Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

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#30

“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book."

[Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]”
― E.B. White

tags: books, comfort, company, encouragement, libraries, reading, solace

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