"The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing."

-- Booker T. Washington

#Struggle Quotes #Race Quotes #Progress Quotes

“Being famous is not all that one should want in life...there is much more to life than name and fame...”

Source : Tim Harford (2012). “The Undercover Economist”, p.113, Oxford University Press, USA
“There is no closer bond than the one that gratefulness celebrates, the bond between giver and thanksgiver. Everything is a gift. Grateful living is a celebration of the universal give-and-take of life, a limitless yes to belonging. Can our world survive without gratefulness? Whatever the answer, one thing is certain: to say an unconditional yes to the mutual belonging of all beings will make this a more joyful world. This is the reason why Yes is my favorite synonym for God.”
“The civil liberty of every mode of worship, and full power given to all of openly and publicly manifesting their opinions and their ideas conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people... The Roman Pontiff cannot and ought not to reconcile himself or agree with, progress, liberalism and modern civilization.”
“What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know”
“Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons - infinite patience and never ending persistence.”
“I've now been doing this for ten years, and I actually got to skip a stage of going to casting directors, and now I meet with the directors, either for lunch or an audition room, and I still read sides; you're never going to get around that, but I'm not the best person to go on an audition.”
“And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze About a star of deathless and painless peace But no astronomer can find where it is.”
“There has to be a better use for titanium than golf clubs.”

Source : "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.

You may also like:

Frederick Douglass
Orator
George Washington Carver
Scientist
Harriet Tubman
Activist
Ida B. Wells
Journalist
Jane Addams
Sociologist
Langston Hughes
Poet
Marcus Garvey
Publisher
Theodore Roosevelt
26th U.S. President
W. E. B. Du Bois
Historian