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“The function of education is to teach
one to think intensively and to think
critically. Intelligence plus character—
that is the goal of true education.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Education is the most
powerful weapon you can use
to change the world.”
Nelson
Mandela

“It is not our differences that divide us.
It is our inability to recognize, accept,
and celebrate those differences.”
Audre Lorde

“Education is the passport to the
future, for tomorrow belongs to
those who prepare for it today.”
Malcolm X

“Our lives begin to end the day
we become silent about things
that matter.”

“I have learned over the years that
when one's mind is made up, this
diminishes fear; knowing what must
be done does away with fear.”
Rosa Parks

“If you stop struggling,
then you stop life.”
Huey Newton

“Remember that consciousness is power.
Consciousness is education and knowledge.
Consciousness is becoming aware. It is the
perfect vehicle for students.”
Yuri Kochiyama

“Despite the hardships that I have
encountered, the most important thing
to realize is that invisibility is not an
acceptable solution to oppression.”
Sylvia Rivera

“The most common way people
give up their power is by
thinking they don't have any.”
Alice
Walker

“Freedom is never voluntarily
given by the oppressor; it must be
demanded by the oppressed.”

“The cost of liberty is less than
the price of repression.”
W. E. B. Du Bois

“When a system of oppression has become
institutionalized, it is unnecessary for the
individuals to be oppressive.”
Florynce Kennedy

“In the end antiblack, antifemale,
and all forms of discrimination are
equivalent to the same thing -
antihumanism.”
Shirley
Chisholm

“There is no such thing as a
single-issue struggle because
we do not live single-issue lives.”
Audre Lorde

“Our scientific power has outrun our
spiritual power. We have guided missiles
and misguided men.”

“In order to rally people, governments
need enemies. They want us to be
afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind
them. And if they do not have a real
enemy, they will invent one in order to
mobilize us.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

“Anyone who has ever struggled
with poverty knows exactly how
expensive it is to be poor.”
James Baldwin

“The idea of freedom is inspiring. But
what does it mean? If you are free in a
political sense but have no food, what’s
that? The freedom to starve?”
Angela Davis

“We draw our strength from the
very despair in which we have been
forced to live. We shall endure.”
Cesar Chavez

“My mother said I must always be
intolerant of ignorance but understanding
of illiteracy. That some people, unable to
go to school, were more intelligent and
more educated than college professors.”
Maya
Angelou

Who does not know of literature banned
because it is interrogative; discredited
because it is critical; erased because
alternate?
Toni Morrison

“The present moment
contains past and future.
The secret of transformation,
is in the way we handle this very
moment.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

“The ultimate test of a man is not where
he stands in moments of comfort and
moments of convenience, but where he
stands in moments of challenge and
moments of controversy.”

“I would refuse to go to a homophobic
heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I
would much rather go to the other place.”
Desmond Tutu

“Being oppressed means
the absence of choices.”
bell hooks

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that. Hate cannot
drive out hate; only love can do that.”

“We must recognize that the suffering of one
person or one nation is the suffering of
humanity. That the happiness of one person
or nation is the happiness of humanity.”
Dalai Lama

“Change is one thing.
Acceptance is another.”
Arundhati Roy

“Oriental was a rug that everyone
steps on, so we ain’t no Orientals.
We were Asian American.”
Richard Aoki

Sexist language, racist language,
theistic language - all are typical of the
policing languages of mastery, and
cannot, do not permit new knowledge
or encourage the mutual exchange of
ideas.
Toni Morrison

“If we aren’t intersectional, some
of us, the most vulnerable, are
going to fall through the cracks.”
Kimberlé
Crenshaw

“The future belongs to those who cultivate
cultural sensitivities to differences and who
use these abilities to forge a hybrid
consciousness that transcends the “us” vs.
“them” mentality.”
Gloria Anzaldúa

“In the end, we will remember
not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.”

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
DAY OF SERVICE
PRODUCED BY
THE OFFICE OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
CLARK UNIVERSITY
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
COMMITTEE ON DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
COMMITTEE ON CAMPUS CLIMATE
OFFICE OF ACADEMIC ADVANCEMENT

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