42 Black History Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

Updated: Aug 16, 2025

A selection of black history quotes with sound bites from famous or less known movies, as rated by our visitors, accompanied by short MP3 or WAV audio samples.

31 50000 men died right here on this field, fightin' the same fight that we're still fightin' amongst ourselves... today.

Denzel Washington as Coach Herman Boone in Remember the Titans

32 Fight for freedom? Fight for whose freedom? I'm not free right here. You got places on Miami Beach I can't go. My people not free.

Muhammad Ali in The Greatest (1977)

33 Long time ago long, long time ago, white men went to Africa.

LisaRaye McCoy as Diana "Diamond" Armstrong in The Players Club (1998)

34 And it definitely was not prepared for Black people to, in the end, begin to demand their rights and an equal share in this country which they've died for.

Max Julien as Goldie The Mack in The Mack (1973)

35 Any colored player who tries to crash the major league's got two strikes on him. That don't cut no ice.

Quote from Destination Freedom

36 I had read of lynchings before and had been deeply stirred.

Quote from Destination Freedom

37 Lincoln is gonna issue an emancipation proclamation. Gonna free the slaves. Well, maybe not the ones in the border states or something, but he's gonna free some of them, anyway.

Matthew Broderick as Colonel Robert Gould Shaw in Glory (1989)

38 Any Negro taken in arms against the Confederacy will immediately be returned to a state of slavery.

Matthew Broderick as Colonel Robert Gould Shaw in Glory (1989)

39 The last time I took a bus, I heard some white men talking... About Jackie. About what they'd do if a colored man tried to play on this city's team.

Jackie Robinson as Himself in The Jackie Robinson Story

40 They want to burn the place up 'cause that colored kid got shot.

Denzel Washington as Coach Herman Boone in Remember the Titans

42 Black History Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

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