Black History Month Quotes

Black History Month is a time in the year when black excellence is appreciated and stories of great triumph are told. Studying historical figures help us understand the ideology behind the people that help changed the world.

“We Create our future, by well improving our present opportunities: however, and small they be.”

-Lewis Howard Latimer

“When you can do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”

-George Washington Carver

“What integration has done is caused people to know other people.” -Roy Clay Sr.

“I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.” -Rosa Parks

“Have a vision of excellence, a dream of success, and work like hell.” -Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook

“If you fall behind run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.” -Jessie Jackson

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” -Fredrick Douglass

“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