The first revolution is when you change your mind about how you look at things, and see that there might be another way to look at it that you have not been shown.
- Gill Scott Heron
I must [speak] what I know so I’ll know that I’ve known it all along.
- Opal Palmer Adisa
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
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
- Alice Walker
Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
- Kwame Nkrumah
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
- Nelson Mandela
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
You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless (s)he has [their] freedom.”
- Malcom X
Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.
- Oprah
When and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole...race enters with me
–Anna Julia Cooper
