Forum Post: GREAT QUOTES THAT SPEAK TO THIS MOVEMENT

"No lie can live forever." "Truth crushed to earth rises up." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Sooner or later, but mus', the dam going to bus' and every person will break out and who will stop them? The force? What force can stop this river of people who already know their course?" - Bongo Jerry, Rastafarian poet

"To the oppressors I say this: No matter how hard you try, you will not succeed in drying up the sea and destroying life on earth...other gods have checked you; now other gods will stop you. Rub your eyes my brother and start again. Peace be with you. Yes, it was something like that that I always wanted to say: for, after all, human suffering is human suffering. I'll say this: I saw some, not many but some- young men and women come to freedom on that road, and it was as though they couldn't believe it, that they could actually be, just be, that they could step out of the lie and the trap of their history. What I had always wanted to say to them is almost exactly what they said to me, and their being recalled to life was a beautiful thing to behold." - James Baldwin, from "Just Above My Head".

"Sooner or later it'll all come down cause you can't... push... people around." - unknown jazz musician

"A person is not an adult until he or she is able and willing to accept his or her own vision of the world, no matter how radically this vision departs from that of others." - James Baldwin

"We refused to be what you wanted us to be. We are what we are. That's the way it's going to be." - Bob Marley