"For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better."

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Source : "The Mis-Education of the Negro". Book by Carter G. Woodson, 1933.

Carter G. Woodson

#Mean Quotes #People Quotes #Justice Quotes

“I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.”
“How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.”
“All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.”
“Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.”
“It's a good thing [James] Dean died when he did. If he'd lived, he'd never have been able to live up to the publicity.”
“... when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin's eyes, just flat and uninvolved.”
“There are many ways in which people are made aware of their power to believe in the supremacy of Divine guidance and power: through music or visual art, some event or experience decisively influencing their life, looking through a microscope or telescope, or just by looking at the miraculous manifestations or purposefulness of Nature.”
“To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.”

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