These brave black leaders and their words of wisdom provide inspiration to us all.

Civil rights activist, sports heroes, musicians, actors and actresses have all shown the way to freedom and human dignity.

This slideshow of famous quotes for Black History Month will inspire us all year round to keep fighting to be treated equally and with respect.

The slideshow is interactive so that you can pause the slideshow to read a quote more carefully or go backwards or forwards through the slideshow using your fingers. Or you can let the slideshow progress quote by quote by itself.

Famous quotes by african-Americans include:
1) Maya Angelou
2) Alicia Garza, Co-Founder Black Lives Matter
3) President Barack Obama
4) Frederick Douglas
5) Patrisse Cullors
6) W. E. B. Du Bois
7) Harriet Tubman
8) Malcon X
9) Ralph Ellison
10) Betye Saar
11) Toni Morrison
12) August Wilson
13) Jesse Owens
14) Marian Wright Edelman
15) John Lewis
16) deray mckesson
17) Kara Walker
18) Langston Hughes
19) Denzel Washington
20) Alice Walker
21) Lorna Simpson
22) Aretha Franklin
23) Antwone Fisher
24) Jimi Hendrix
25) Rosa Parks
26) Thurgood Marshall
27) Faith Ringgold
28) Miles Davis
29) Opal Tometi
30) Martin Luther King, Jr.

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