Don’t let anybody take your manhood. Be proud of our heritage; as somebody said earlier tonight, we don’t have anything to be ashamed of. Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything black, ugly and evil. Look in your dictionary and see the synonyms of the word ‘black.’ It’s always something degrading and low and sinister. Look at the word, ‘white.’ It’s always some pure, high and. I want to get the language so right that everybody here will cry out, ‘Yes I’m black and I’m proud of it. I’m black and I’m beautiful.’
– Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Morehouse College ’48 | Human and Civil Rights Activist + Nobel Peace Prize Recipient | #HBCUSTORY
