“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
“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.” — Aristotle · Politics, Book VI, c. 350 BC