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"Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord." Colossians 3:20 (NIV)
EDUCATION IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS!
The Middle Passage
African-American Quotations
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack Obama
Faith is not just something you have, it's something you do.
BARACK OBAMA, speech, Dec. 1, 2006
Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
Arthur Ashe (1943-1993)
quoted in Sports Illustrated, July 1991
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
Frederick Douglass (1818?-1895)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)
Our nation is a rainbow—red, yellow, brown, black, and white—and we're all precious in God's sight.
Jesse Jackson (1941-)
speech given at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco on July 17, 1984
I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan (1963-)
I Can't Accept Not Trying (1994)
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
Strength to Love, 1963
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that's where it's at.
Jesse Owens (1913-1980)
Blackthink (1970)
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