Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. — Jimi Hendrix
If you’re tired of arguing with strangers on the internet, try talking to them in real life. — Barack Obama
You have to listen with a heart. I don’t want to sound touchy-feely — it is not. It is very hard work. — Anna Deavere Smith
If you’re not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you are consistent, you will succeed. — John Lewis
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize accept and celebrate those differences. — Audre Lorde
Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. — August Wilson
Nonviolence is pretty ballsy, pretty advanced weaponry. — Ava DuVernay
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. — Frederick Douglass
Every one of us has the capacity to be an oppressor. I want to encourage everyone to interrogate how we might be an oppressor and how we might become liberator for ourselves and for each other. — LaVerne Cox
We’re stuck in fear and in not wanting to cross that most important bridge of understanding that we’re more alike than not. — Stevie Wonder
The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient. — Mahalia Jackson
Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple — that’s creativity. — Charles Mingus
It takes more than one of us to bring about peace. It takes all of us. — Rosa Parks
Human existence exists on multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional lefel, not just being identified with what you do and say. — Ornette Coleman
I don’t hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people — and they’re helpless with it. — Mos Def/Yasiin Bey
When we are committed to doing the work of love, we listen even when it hurts. — bell hooks
When in doubt, zoom out. — Reggie Watts
The greatest gift is not being afraid to question. — Ruby Dee
Be grateful for the luck, pay the thunder no mind — listen to the birds. And don’t hate nobody. — Eubie Blake
Change comes from listening, learning, caring and conversation. — Gwen Ifill
A musician’s whole life is to listen. — Wynton Marsalis
Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth. — Shirley Chisholm
It’s harder to make the glass than break the glass. –RZA
You are none of the superficial things that the world deems important. The real you is the energy force that created the universe. — RuPaul
Kindness eases change. Love quiets fear. — Octavia Butler
There is nothing better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time. — Malcolm X
I don’t let my mouth say nothing that my head can’t stand. — Louis Armstrong
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team. But one man cannot make a team. — Kareem Adbul Jabbar
Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want. — Alice Walker
When there’s no mutual respect, there’s trouble. — Dizzy Gillespie
You’re not teaching anyone unless you’re learning yourself. — Hilton Als
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once the hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with real pain. — James Baldwin
There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we’re here to explore new possibilities. — Ray Charles
I have always been a learner because I knew nothing. — Sidney Poitier
Judgement of the people in the situation is not helpful. How you can help them is the question. — Russell Simmons
Hate is too great a burden to bear. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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