Quotes I Keep Coming Back To

A Harbor In Difficult Days

“You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were Black and for no other reason. The limits of your ambition were, thus, expected to be set forever. You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.” - James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” – Desmond Tutu

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” —Langston Hughes,

“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

“We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.” — Bayard Rustin