"A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give."
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, 1892
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, 1892
"Slaveholders have no rights more than any other thief or pirate. They have forfeited even the right to live, and if the slave should put every one of them to the sword tomorrow, who dare pronounce the penalty disproportionate to the crime?"
- Frederick Douglass, 1849
- Frederick Douglass, 1849
"We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes."
- Ella Baker
- Ella Baker
“I don’t believe in gradualism or that whatever should be done for the better should take forever to do.”
- Rosa Parks
- Rosa Parks
Charles E. Cobb Jr. on WEB Du Bois being ready for white supremacist mobs in Atlanta in 1906. 
never allow those in power to sanitise the struggles that run through the unbroken thread of the Black Radical Tradition. Never let them wield their memory wars, rewritings of history as weapons against the fight for freedom today.
as Julian Bond of SNCC put it re the Civil Rights Movement, the history books would have it that "Rosa sat down, Martin stood up; and then the white folks saw the light and saved the day."
