Inspirational and Social Justice Quotes

Black History

• African American Women in Their Own Words (ThoughtCo)

 
Daily

• 12 Daily Reminders We Need to Read Every Morning (Marc & Angel Hack Life)
• 15 Inspiring Quotes to improve Your Worst Day (Up Motivated)
• Stay Motivated When the Going Gets Tough Thanks to These 100 Quotes About Not Giving Up (Parade)

 
Education

• 11 Education Quotes to Inspire Endless Learning (Signature)

Issues

• 27 Quotes to Change How You Think About Problems (Entrepreneur)

Popular

• Top 68 Quotes of All Time (Up Motivated)

 
Proverbs

• 31 Most Beautiful Proverbs from Around the World (Reader's Digest)

 
Success

• 56 Motivational And Inspirational Quotes About Success (Inc)

 
Richard Bach

• "I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy." - Richard Bach
• "We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought." - Richard Bach 

 
President Calvin Coolidge

• “Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful (people) with talent. Genius will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” — President Calvin Coolidge

 
Confucius

• "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius

 
Marie Curie

• "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." - Marie Curie

 
Frederick Douglass

• 20 Powerful Quotes From Frederick Douglass (Mental Floss)
  

Albert Einstein

• “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination circles the world.” - Albert Einstein
  
• 10 of Albert Einstein's Best Quotes (World Economic Forum)

 
Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

• "Much is yet to be discovered and invented, so dig ideas with uniqueness." - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

Mahatma Gandhi

• "Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny." - Mahatma Gandhi

Johann Hari

• The opposite of addiction is connection – Johann Hari – Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong TED Talks

Victor Hugo

• ''He who opens a school door, closes a prison.'' - Victor Hugo

 
Steve Jobs

• "Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things." - Steve Jobs
• "Each dream you leave behind is a part of your future that will no longer exist." - Steve Jobs
• "If you don't have a passion, you'll give up." - Steve Jobs
• "Learn continually - there's always "one more thing" to learn!" - Steve Jobs
•  "To go forward you have to leave something behind" - Steve Jobs

Carl Jung

• "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." – Carl Jung

 
Jackson Katz

• “We talk about how many women were raped last year, not how many men raped women. We talk about how many girls in a school district were harassed last year, not about how many boys harassed girls. We talk about how many teenage girls in the state of Vermont got pregnant last year, rather than how many boys and men impregnated teenage girls.” - Jackson Katz

Ibraham X. Kendi

• We usually think that racist ideas lead to racist actions. But according to Kendi, racist policies came before racist ideas. Those in power act out of self-interest. Thus, they enact racist policies (slavery, immigration, redlining) to maintain that power…These policies then result in racial inequities (lack of wealth or education)...Which lead to the development of racist ideas by others who see these inequities and need a reason to justify why these inequities exist (example: [Black, Indigenous, People of Color] must be "less than'). How Ibram X. Kendi's Definition of Antiracism Applies to Schools (KQUED Mind Shift)

Martin Luther King Jr.

• "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King Jr.

Malcom X

• 15 Empowering Quotes From Malcolm X That Continue To Inspire Us (Blavity)
• "If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything." - Malcolm X
• "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” - Malcolm X

A. A. Milne

• "Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." - A. A. Milne

 
Bob Proctor

• "A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you." - Bob Proctor

T. Rusnak

• "The journey of change begins when you decide to let go of the old and trust in your knowing of the new." - T. Rusnak

 
Kim Steadman

• "I knew it was the right thing to do because I started feeling some of the toxicity inside me melt away and peace begin to fill in the crevices." - Kim Steadman

Deborah Tanner

• "Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations." - Deborah Tanner

 
Marianne Williamson

•  "A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower. You didn’t have to struggle to make your face different than anyone else’s on earth. It just is. You are unique because you were created that way. Look at little children in kindergarten. They’re all different without trying to be. As long as they’re unselfconsciously being themselves, they can’t help but shine. It’s only later, when children are taught to compete, to strive to be better than others, that their natural light becomes distorted." - Marianne Williamson 
• "In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it." - Marianne Williamson
•  "People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs." - Marianne Williamson
• "The meaningful question is never what we did yesterday, but what we have learned from it and are doing today." - Marianne Williamson