African Freedom Quotes

#1. To .. all the dispossessed youth of Africa: for perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight for African freedom, and in the firm faith that the dead, the living, and the unborn will unite to rebuild the destroyed shrines.

Jomo Kenyatta

#2. The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

Nelson Mandela

#3. We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not acknowledge the road that brought us here. Our failure to confront the historical truth about how African Americans finally won their freedom presents a major obstacle to genuine racial reconciliation.

Timothy B. Tyson

#4. There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

Neil Gaiman

#5. Scatter the clouds that hide The face of heaven, and show Where sweet peace doth abide, Where Truth and Beauty grow.

Robert Bridges

#6. Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life ... "Not I, but Christ."

Vance Havner

#7. I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.

Amy Winehouse

#8. When I was born, I was colored. I soon became a Negro. Not long after that I was black. Most recently I was African-American. It seems we're on a roll here. But I am still first and foremost in search of freedom.

Harry Belafonte

#9. You don't need to become great 1st to step into your greatness. Have you left your comfort zone and ventured out to unleash your greatness?

Assegid Habtewold

#10. Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation, to the Civil Rights movement. Civil Rights legislation was passed by a Republican Congress.

Rafael Cruz

#11. Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

Carol Moseley Braun

#12. We must learn to live the African way. It's the only way to live in freedom and with dignity

Thomas Sankara

#13. As the African American theologian James Cone notes, "Far from being songs of passive resignation, the spirituals are black freedom songs which emphasize black liberation as consistent with divine revelation.

James Martin

#14. Power is supposed to be so corrupt. I don't think it's so much corrupt, in the usual sense of the word, as stupid and unrealistic. The more power a person has, the further he gets from reality.

Jane Jacobs

#15. Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires ...

June Jordan

#16. Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.

Coretta Scott King

#17. A female artist friend of mine recently told me that she was advised to 'look more slutty.' I asked her boyfriend what the equivalent advice for a man would be. He said to be more muscular. That made me rush to the gym.

Mark Kostabi

#18. And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

Rand Paul

#19. The best tribute we can pay Madiba is to ensure that our political debate focuses on issues of how best we can ensure that each South African child, whatever the circumstances of their birth, inherits freedom they can use.

Helen Zille

#20. Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

#21. The cause of freedom is not the ...

Anna Julia Cooper

#22. It's important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country.

Amelia Boynton Robinson

#23. Yet, thousands of africans and young african youths have failed to acknowledge the significant of what madiba gave them. To me, he be called the pride in black skin and the freedom we are enjoying

Victor Adeagbo

#24. [God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom.

Ezola B. Foster

#25. Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.

Demi Moore

#26. A woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because

Anonymous

#27. When you hide your face from the world, you can't see the world.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#28. As long as many of our people still live in utter poverty, as long as children still live under plastic covers, as long as many of our people are still without jobs, no South African should rest and wallow in the joy of freedom.

Nelson Mandela

#29. I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.

Laetitia Casta

#30. The mainstreaming of African American history was a byproduct of the long black freedom struggle, the early black history movement, and the black student movement of the Black Power era.

Pero Gaglo Dagbovie

#31. One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.

Herbie Hancock

#32. It is my belief that conscious African American students ought to be in a constant state of rage and in a constant search for ways to channel that rage into freedom struggle.

Pearl Cleage