“How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?” -Malcolm X Tweet
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“You’ll never see the follow-up stories about lottery winners. Why? Because then you would see that, in nine cases out of ten, all that money destroys people’s lives. People see what’s on the outside, and guys like myself make it look so wonderful and so desirable, and the average person doesn’t even realize that it’s […]
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“To punish me for my contempt of authority, fate has made me an authority myself.”-Albert Einstein Tweet
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“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson Tweet
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“The descendants of slaves who had worked those fields and so many others throughout Mississippi and the rest of the South, denied freedom, wages, and basic human rights, had become the owners of many of those farms.” -Caron Butler Tweet
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“Although I wasn’t invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn’t invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.” -Jesse Owens Tweet
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“Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.” -Ossie Davis Tweet
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“Every nothing you say and do makes it just that much easier for the next incident of that nature.” -Gil Scott-Heron Tweet
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“It took me three winters on St. Simon’s to hear a single slave song, three times as many winters to see the religious dance called the ring-shout, still more winters to unearth the Buzzard Lope and similar solo dances, and the game songs known as ring-play…The secretiveness of the Negro is, I believe, the fundamental […]
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“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” -Frederick Douglass Tweet
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