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"The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?"

Henry Louis Gates on Truth

More quotes about Truth

  • "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

    Marcus Aurelius on Truth

  • "Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."

    Albert Einstein on Truth

  • "Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."

    Buddha on Truth

  • "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

    Martin Luther King, Jr. on Truth

  • "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

    Winston Churchill on Truth

More quotes by Henry Louis Gates

  • "I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti."

  • "Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice."

  • "It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art."

  • "We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community."

  • "Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that."

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