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<b>How many of these quotes can you identify?</b>

How many of these quotes can you identify?

Can You Match The Quote With The Black History Hero Who Said It?

Frederick Douglass

"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."

Martin Luther King Jr.

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

Muhammad Ali

"I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want."

Harriet Tubman

"Never wound a snake; kill it."

Jackie Robinson

"The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time."

Malcolm X

"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."

Coretta Scott King

"Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood."

Maya Angelou

"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible."

Rosa Parks

"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

"Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment."

Booker T. Washington

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."

Ida B. Wells

"The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press."

Langston Hughes

"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?"

Thurgood Marshall

"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."

W.E.B. DuBois

"If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known."

Marcus Garvey

"The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness."

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