Playlist:
I Survived It – Lemmie Battles
How I Got Over – Aretha Franklin
A Change Is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke
I Know The Lord Will Make a Way – Gospel Music According to Chicago (GMAC) featuring Vernon Oliver Price
If I Can Help Somebody – Mahalia Jackson
Running For Jesus – Galilee Baptist Church
Quotes From Black Historians:
“Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.”
—Dr. Mae Jemison, first African-American female astronaut
“In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.”
—Thurgood Marshall, the first African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice
“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”
—Coretta Scott King
“Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.”
—Susan L. Taylor, journalist
“One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.”
—Franklin Thomas, activist, philanthropist, and former president of the Ford Foundation
“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.”
—Desmond Tutu
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”
—Langston Hughes
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
—Frederick Douglass
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Have a vision. Be demanding.”
—Colin Powell
“Freedom is never given; it is won.”
—A. Philip Randolph, civil rights activist
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
—Booker T. Washington
“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” —Rosa Parks
“Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.” —William Lloyd Garrison
“We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. Our abundance has brought us neither peace of mind nor serenity of spirit.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” —Muhammad Ali
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” —Nelson Mandela
“Truth is powerful and it prevails.” —Sojourner Truth
“I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” —Michael Jordan
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” —Barack Obama
“Won’t it be wonderful when black history and Native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.” —Maya Angelou
