There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don’t expect you to save the world I do think it’s not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your live those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.

                                                                                                              -Nikki Giovanni

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.

                                                                                                        -Stokely Carmichael

“It don’t take a whole day to recognize sunshine…”

                                                                    - Common from “The Light“ 

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil.”

                                                                                                   -Gandalf (Lord of the Rings)

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you”
(Matthew 5.43-45 ESV)

                                                                                       -Jesus

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

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

                                                                                                      -Frederick Douglass

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

                                                                                                       Martin Luther King Jr.

I sit with Shakespeare, and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm and arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out of the caves of evening that swing between the strong-limbed Earth and the tracery of stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the veil. Is this the life you grudge us, O knightly America? Is this the life you long to change into the dull red hideousness of Georgia? Are you so afraid lest peering from this high Pisgah, between Philistine and Amalekite, we sight the Promised Land?

                                                                                                                      -W.E.B. Dubois

     “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”

                                                                                                   - Malcom X