In honor of Black History Month, we wanted to share some of our favorite messages to help celebrate the contributions of African-Americans. Here are a few of our favorites:
Black History Month Messages
- Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
- The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
- If we can’t look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people.
- What’s in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth, and your development first.
- This month we celebrate the power of resilience and sacrifice as a tribute to black history heroes and leaders.
- We should never undermine the power of determination and persistence. That’s how we will be able to end racism. Happy Black History Month!
- I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure, but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try.
- If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
- In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist.
- We are all HUMAN! We are all EQUAL! Not superior or inferior.
- Paying tribute to black history heroes and black leaders in history.
- I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.
- Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man’s feeble attempt to lay down the principles of decency.
- Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable. I didn’t have to become perfect because I’ve learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness.
- If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself.
- The best way to make dreams come true is to wake up.
- Black history isn’t a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.
- Let’s honor the tolerance, bravery, resiliency, and courage of all native African Americans. My friends, happy Black History Month
- Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
- If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.
Black History Month Messages for Kids
Black History Month is a time to celebrate the amazing contributions of African Americans throughout history. This year, we wanted to share some Black History Month messages for kids.
First, we want to salute all of the amazing African Americans who have made such a significant impact on our society. From pioneers like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, to athletes like Jackie Robinson and Billie Jean King, to scientists like Albert Einstein and Maya Angelou, African Americans have always made a vital contribution to our country.
We also want to remind kids that, despite all of the progress we’ve made, there is still a lot of work to be done to fully achieve equality and justice for all. We continue to fight for civil rights, education opportunities, and economic justice, and we will never stop striving for equality.
Finally, we want to encourage all of our kids to learn more about the history of African Americans and to continue to be proud of our diverse and amazing community. Thank you for celebrating Black History Month with us!
Some more ideas are given below:
- As we celebrate this month, let us remind ourselves never to withstand injustice, racism, and inequality like the Black History leaders.
- I swear to the Lord I still can’t see why democracy means everybody but me.
- The very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being.
- We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation’s greatness.
- Friendly reminder that you don’t have to say the ‘n word’ to be racist. That’s not the sole requirement. Asking people to prove racism is another tool the oppressor uses to marginalize and discredit us.
- Happy Black History Month! It’s time to learn from the past how firm resolve and resilience can bring glory!
- Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.
- If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.
- It’s time to fight racism with solidarity and put a full stop to it!
- Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
- Racism is a disease, let’s find a cure on this Black History Month 2022.
- It is deplorable that people were tortured, oppressed over years and years, discriminated against just because of their skin color! Let’s celebrate Black History Month to remember those fighters!
- Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
- Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.
- Greetings for Black History Month! We must never allow anyone to determine who we are in 2023 based on our race, skin tone, religion, or anything else!
- Here are some powerful Black History Month quotes that will move you:
- One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.
- He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
- We will all, at some point, encounter hurdles to gaining access and entry, moving up and conquering self-doubt; but on the other side is the capacity to own opportunity and tell our own story.
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Black History Month Messages for Teachers
- If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.
- Black people have always been America’s wilderness in search of a promised land.
- We have a wonderful history behind us…and it is going to inspire us to greater achievements.
- Greetings for Black History Month! It’s time to learn from history how steadfast resolve and resiliency may bring success!
- You are not and yet you are: your thoughts, your deeds, above all your dreams still live.
- Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another’s uniqueness.
- Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
- It’s not the load that breaks you down; it’s the way you carry it.
- If we want to get to the place where all lives matter, then we have to make sure that black lives matter too.
- Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
- Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
- Stop talking about it. I’m going to stop calling you a white man, and I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.
- Let us pay tribute to all native African Americans for their tolerance, bravery, resilience, and courage. Happy Black History Month, my Friends!
- If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
- Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Black History Month Messages for Students
In honor of Black History Month, we would like to remind our students that every day, we are reminded of the important contributions of black Americans. Here are a few messages to help get you started:
- I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.
- Have a vision of excellence, a dream of success, and work like hell.
- The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
- Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
- My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
- At the end of the day, it’s not about what you have or even what you’ve accomplished. It’s about what you’ve done with those accomplishments. It’s about who you’ve lifted up, who you’ve made better. It’s about what you’ve given back.
- Happy Black History Month! In 2022, we must never let anyone define ourselves by race, skin color, religion, or anything!
- A man without knowledge of himself and his heritage is like a tree without roots.
- Never should we undervalue the strength of tenacity and perseverance. That is how society will eradicate racism. Greetings for Black History Month!
- In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
- Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
- Greetings for Black History Month! May the fearless fighters’ struggle, suffering, effort, sweat, and blood never be in vain.
- Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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What is Black History Month and how did it begin?
- Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
- We don’t welcome Racism in this 21st century. Let’s stop Racism!
- Greetings for Black History Month! Let’s honor the bravery and tenacity displayed by our forefathers over the ages.
- I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality…. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
- Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.
- When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected.
- Anyone who claims to be a leader must speak like a leader. That means speaking with integrity and truth.
- The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at.
- You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that’s from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.
- While we are all unique in some way, we are all humans. Only a great character can make a great man, not the color of his skin, not his religion nor his sexual orientation. When we will understand this, we will be able to live in harmony.
- Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
- Happy Black History Month! May the struggle, pain, endeavor, sweat, and blood of those fearless warriors never go in vain.
Why do we celebrate Black History Month?
Celebrating Black History Month is a way to honor the accomplishments of African Americans and to learn about the history of this important community.
African Americans have made important contributions to American culture and society. They have played an important role in the development of democracy and have played a significant role in many fields, including science, mathematics, and engineering.
Black History Month is also an opportunity to learn about the history of slavery and the struggle for civil rights. African Americans have made significant contributions to the United States, and their history should be remembered and celebrated.
Some more ideas are given below:
- You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
- Regrettably, people were subjected to torture, oppression, and discrimination based solely on their skin tone. Let’s commemorate Black History Month in their honor.
- We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
- Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that’s in us.
- Happy Black History Month! Let’s celebrate the valor and strength our ancestors have shown over the centuries.
- Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.
- How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
- There are certain events in Afro-American history that have impacted the world and the way it has developed more than we think. While the pain caused can never be erased, we can still learn from our past mistakes and make sure to never repeat them again. We can all contribute to the change this world needs.
- It’s important for young people to know that they are made the way they are made and they’re beautiful and that’s how they’re supposed to be.
- The beauty of anti-racism is that you don’t have to pretend to be free of racism to be anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself. And it’s the only way forward.
- True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.
- We all have dreams. In order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline and effort.
