“It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.”

-Shelby Steele

“We had talked long enough; we were now ready to move; if not now, we never should be; and if we did not intend to move now, we had as well fold our arms, sit down, and acknowledge ourselves fit only to be slaves.”

-Frederick Douglass