Quiz bowl quotes

Carol Moseley-Braun, politician and lawyer

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

Coretta Scott King

"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated."

Thurgood Marshall, first African American U.S. Supreme Court member

"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."

Dr. Mae Jemison, first African-American female astronaut

"Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations."

W.E.B. Du Bois

"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."

Susan L. Taylor, journalist

"Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us."

Thurgood Marshall, first African American U.S. Supreme Court member

"Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak ouf, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on."

Ronald Harmon Brown

was an American politician. He served as the United Slates Secretary of commerce during the first term of President Bill Clinton. Prior to this he was chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). He was the first African American to hold these positions.

south from voting.

The 1944 Supreme Court ruling in Smith v. Allwright

banned the "white primary" which prevented Blacks in the south from voting

Thurgood Marshall

an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from 1967 until 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice.

Lawrence Joel

first black man to receive the Medal of Honor for battlefield heroism.