“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” —Coretta Scott King
“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.” —Desmond Tutu
“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
“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
“Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.” —Maya Angelou
“The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.” —Henry Louis Gates
“You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served.” —Nina Simone
