The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.

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Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.

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It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

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The Million Man March was held on a Monday. Most marches were always held on a weekend and most marches were paid for by philanthropic groups and organizations and labor unions, etc. So, the people who came did not necessarily have to make a great sacrifice to be there. — Louis Farrakhan

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It is as true as that night follows day, that the man who does more than he is paid for, and does it in a pleasant mental attitude, sooner or later is paid for more than he does.

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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.

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If it is not a fit place for women, it is unfit for men to be there. ― Sojourner Truth

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

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Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?

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Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

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