Quote for the Day! - Archive

Friday, Feb 26, 2021

“I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.”

Ralph Abernathy
American civil rights activist and Baptist minister.
(1926 - 1990)

Thursday, Feb 25, 2021

“[e]very persecuted individual and race should get much consolation out of the great human law, which is universal and eternal, that merit, no matter under what skin found, is in the long run recognized and rewarded.”

Booker T. Washington
American educator, author, orator and former slave.
(1856 - 1915)

Wednesday, Feb 24, 2021

“I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing...Though I hadn't a penny left, I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in a living God, faith in myself, and a desire to serve.”

Mary McLeod Bethune
American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian and civil rights activist.
(1875 - 1955)

Tuesday, Feb 23, 2021

“History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.”

Thurgood Marshall
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
(1908 - 1993)

Monday, Feb 22, 2021

“A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.”

W.E.B. Du Bois
American sociologist, historian and civil rights activist.
(1868 - 1963)

Friday, Feb 19, 2021

“I believe in God. I hope in God. I love. I want to live and die for God.”

Venerable Henriette Delille
French Creole Nun & Founder of the Sisters of the Holy Family.
(1813 - 1862)

Thursday, Feb 18, 2021

“Tell the children the truth.”

Bob Marley
Jamaican singer-songwriter.
(1945 - 1981)

Wednesday, Feb 17, 2021

“People have to allow themselves to be used by God and Martin [Luther King, Jr.] committed himself totally to God's will and purpose and God is always waiting for someone who is willing to do that.”

Coretta Scott King
American author, activist and civil rights leader.
(1927 - 2006)

Tuesday, Feb 16, 2021

“Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.”

A.G. Gaston
American entrepreneur and businessman.
(1892 - 1996)

Monday, Feb 15, 2021

“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

George Washington
1st President of the United States of America.
(1732 - 1799)

Friday, Feb 12, 2021

“Where there is love there is life.”

Mohandas Gandhi aka Mahatma Gandhi
Preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India also known as the Father of the Nation of India.
(1869 - 1948)

Thursday, Feb 11, 2021

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”

Nelson Mandela
President of South Africa & Nobel Laureate.
(1918 - 2013)

Wednesday, Feb 10, 2021

“There is no place on this globe where people, whatever their background, can make such progress as right here in America, providing they demonstrate ability, character, and imagination.”

Charles Clinton Spaulding
American entrepreneur and business leader.
(1874 - 1952)

Tuesday, Feb 09, 2021

“I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.”

Septima Poinsette Clark
American educator and civil rights activist.
(1898 - 1987)

Monday, Feb 08, 2021

“Hold on to your dreams of a better life and stay committed to striving to realize it.”

Earl G. Graves, Sr.
American entrepreneur, publisher and philanthropist.
(1935 - 2020)

Friday, Feb 05, 2021

“In this life, virtue consists of loving what must be loved. Knowing how to choose it is prudence, not letting oneself be distracted by seductive powers is temperance, not letting oneself be led astray by pride is justice.”

Saint Augustine
Famous sinner turned Saint & One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(354AD - 430AD)

Thursday, Feb 04, 2021

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

Langston Hughes
American poet, social activist, novelist and columnist.
(1901 - 1967)

Wednesday, Feb 03, 2021

“It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas...This right to receive information and ideas, regardless of their social worth...is fundamental to our free society.”

Thurgood Marshall
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
(1908 - 1993)

Tuesday, Feb 02, 2021

“I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. I want others to look at us and see that we care not just about ourselves but about others.”

Sarah Breedlove, known as Madam C. J. Walker
American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and social activist.
(1867 - 1919)

Monday, Feb 01, 2021

“Sometimes we must accept that God has a better plan.”

St. Josephine Bakhita
Sudanese-Italian Canossian religious sister & former slave.
(1869 - 1947)