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I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.
As quoted in "Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography", Mays constantly recited to his students this anonymous poem. -
A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
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Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.
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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
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He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you - he really is an idiot.
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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.
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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
As quoted in Sexuality and Gender (2002) -
A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
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A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.
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