Memorable African American Quotes About Hope

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"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."
Desmond Tutu
"The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less."
Eldridge Cleaver
"We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together, or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are going to live together, we have to talk."
Harry Belafonte
"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."
Malcolm X
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."
Angela Davis
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"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
Langston Hughes
"Have a vision. Be demanding."
Colin Powell
"Darkness is only driven out by light, hatred is only conquered by love."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."
George S. Patton
"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
"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."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We are confronted primarily with a moral crisis. That is why we are losing. We have got to find a way to invoke the resources of the spirit. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope."
Robert F. Kennedy
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."
Martin Luther
"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."
Maya Angelou
"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."
James Baldwin
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
Mother Teresa
"Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending."
Chico Xavier
"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
Ralph Ellison
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"There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish."
Michelle Obama
"Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone’s disbelief."
August Wilson
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
Frederick Douglass
"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress."
Barack Obama
"Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright. True freedom is understanding you get to choose."
Alicia Keys
"Hope is the word that inspired the civil rights movement."
John Lewis
"You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own."
Michelle Obama
"The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on."
Barack Obama
"We must never forget that hope is a weapon."
Harry Belafonte
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart."
Anne Frank
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We have to be willing to do what it takes to make a difference."
John Lewis
"If you have no hope, you have nothing."
Bernice King
"We need to help students and guide them to see the potential and possibility of their lives."
Freeman A. Hrabowski III
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"I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity."
John Wooden
"There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints."
Rosa Parks
"Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated."
Coretta Scott King
"Service is the rent we pay for living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time."
Marian Wright Edelman
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"You have to proceed as if limits do not exist."
Oprah Winfrey
"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."
Desmond Tutu
"Those who have no voice must be given one"
Michelle Obama
"Darkness is only driven out by light, not more darkness."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We all have dreams, but in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort."
Jesse Owens
"Still, I rise."
Maya Angelou
"The time is always right to do what is right."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's purpose."
James Clear
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
Helen Keller
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."
Emily Dickinson
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
Helen Keller
"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."
Thurgood Marshall
"You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea."
Medgar Evers
"We have a wonderful history behind us... If you are unable to demonstrate pride in that history, you have no reason to expect anyone else to feel pride in you."
Carter G. Woodson
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