#BlackHistoryMonth, Clear Channel is highlighting powerful words of Black Americans

 

Clear Channel Outdoor shared a brief note with OOH Today on the creative they are running for Black History Month. Clear Channel selected 13 individuals (3 attached, all 13 below) whose words they’ve carefully selected as they embody the spirit of hope, healing and unity. CCO will run these all month long across their digital network and across social platforms.

“Hate can never overcome hate, only love can do that.”—John Lewis

“The imperative is to define what is right and do it.”—Barbara Jordan

“In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”—Maya Angelou

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it’s faced.” —James Baldwin

“If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood.”—Bayard Rustin

“Let us be enraged about injustice but let us not be destroyed by it.”—Bayard Rustin

“Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.”—Fannie Lou Hamer

“It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year.” —W.E.B. Du Bois

“There is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it.” —Amanda Gorman

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men” —Frederick Douglass

“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.” — Booker T. Washington

“The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.” —Thurgood Marshall

“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.”—Shirley Chisholm

 

 

 

 

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