Today--right in the middle of Black History month where it belongs--is the unofficial, but widely accepted, birthday one of my most influential role models:
With all of that Freddy D (hey…don’t be offended…that’s how we do it in the Hip-Hop generation) floating around in my head, it’s easy to understand why I’m always quoting him.
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10. No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellowman without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
9. He was whipped oftener who was whipped easiest.
8. Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his power to things needed to be done.
7. Men may not get all they pay [work] for in this world, but they must certainly pay [work] for all they get.
6. I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
5. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will.
4. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.
3. It’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
2. I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
1. One and God make a majority.
Honorable mention:
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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.
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
A man who would not labor to gain his rights, is a man who would not, if he had them, prize and defend them.
Only as we rise do we encounter opposition.
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