16 Quotes by Johnnetta B. Cole

While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.

I grew up in the South. I grew up in the days of legalized segregation. And, so, whether you called it legal racial segregation or you called it apartheid, it was the same injustice.

The more we pull together toward a new day, the less it matters what pushed us apart in the past.

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.

What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you’ve received. If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you have a lot of giving to do.