“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.” -Muhammad Ali Tweet
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“I don’t mean to be like some old guy from the olden days who says, ‘I walked thirty miles to school every morning, so you kids should too.’ That’s a statement born of envy and resentment. What I’m saying is something quite different. What I’m saying is that by having very little, I had it […]
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“Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.” -John Henrik Clarke Tweet
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“We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have- for their usefulness.” -Thomas Merton Tweet
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“I still regret that during the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, our people didn’t understand that after 381 days of creating an alternative bus service, freedom should have also been defined in economic terms. We did not need to return back to riding their buses that were losing money because of our boycott. We should […]
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“I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.” -Benjamin Carson Tweet
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“Some people educate themselves right into ignorance.” -Amos Wilson Tweet
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“We need African American consumers to spend a minimum of 20% of their income with African American businesses and become debt free. We need parents to encourage their children to own a good business versus a good job.” -Jawanza Kunjufu Tweet
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“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” -Robert Louis Stevenson Tweet
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The people’s power ‘is like the light of the sun, native, original, inherent, and unlimited by human authority,’ while ‘power in the rulers or governors of the people is like the reflected light of the moon, and is borrowed, delegated and limited by the grant of the people.’” -From, “At the Hands of Persons Unknown” […]
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