“I just plain decided one day I wasn’t going to do anything or say anything unless I meant it. Not, ‘Please, sir.’ Not, ‘Thank you, Ma’am.’ Nothing; unless I mean it. You have to be poor and Black to know how many times you can get knocked in the head just for trying to do […]
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“I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there, and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad, he would be a United States Senator.” -Mother Jones Tweet
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“Dreams should never be deferred. They should be those ever-present blueprints for the real things.” -Bertice Berry Tweet
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“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.” -Roberto Clemente Tweet
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“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” -Albert Schweitzer Tweet
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“One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing the wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.” -Mahatma Gandhi Tweet
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“If you want to know the end, look at the beginning.” -African Proverb Tweet
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“Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference.” -Theodore Roosevelt Tweet
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“Leadership in good character must make sacrifice to raise man from the lowest depths, but it is blind foolishness to sacrifice more than necessary. Therefore, redeem the man with the least amount of harm to yourself.” -Marcus Garvey Tweet
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“It is the fool whose own tomatoes are sold to him.” -Akan Proverb Tweet
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