If our people are to fight their way up out of bondage we must arm them with the sword and the shield and the buckler of pride. Mary McLeod Bethune, (1875-1955), Barber-Scotia Class of 1894, College President, Women’s and Civil Rights Activist Continue reading
Category Archives: Motivational Mondays
On Blackness | Langston Hughes, Lincoln University ’29
I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa. Langston Hughes, 1902-1967, Lincoln University ’29, Poet, Social Activist, Novelist Continue reading
On Blackness | James Weldon Johnson, Atlanta University, 1894
You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There’s a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that’s just begun. James Weldon Johnson, Atlanta University 1894, Author, Diplomat & Poet Continue reading
On Leadership | C.T. Vivian, American Baptist College
Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat you. You are made by the struggles you choose. Reverend C.T. Vivian, Minister, Author, Civil Rights Activist, Organizer Continue reading
On Living | Martin Luther King, Jr., Morehouse College ’48
If a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., (1929-1968) Pastor, Civil Rights Activist, Morehouse College ’48 Continue reading
On Black Children | Frances Cress Welsing, Howard University College of Medicine ’62
I won’t rest until black children are taught to love themselves as themselves. Frances Cress Welsing Psychiatrist, Activist, Author Continue reading
On God | Crystal A. deGregory, Fisk University ’03
God restores. Crystal A. deGregory, Historian, Storyteller, Executive Editor – HBCUstory Continue reading
On Difference | Toni Morrison, Howard University ’53
Make a difference about something other than yourselves. Toni Morrison, Author, Professor, Nobel Laureate Continue reading
On Mountaintops | Vernon Johns, Virginia University of Lynchburg, 1915
It is good to be the possessor of some mountaintop experience. Vernon Johns (1892-1965) Pastor, Civil Rights Activist Continue reading
On Racism | Stokely Carmichael, Howard University ’64
For racism to die, a totally different America must be born. Stokley Carmichael (1941-1998), Civil Rights Activist, Chairman of Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Continue reading