“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” — Audre Lorde · "Learning from the 60s," speech at Harvard, February 1982
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'” — Martin Luther King Jr. · "I Have a Dream" speech, Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” — James Baldwin · "As Much Truth As One Can Bear," The New York Times Book Review, 1962
“I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” — Harriet Tubman · widely attributed, circa 1896
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” — Frederick Douglass · "If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress," speech, 1857
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” — Charles R. Swindoll · Strengthening Your Grip, 1982