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"The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself."
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"It may be that you've just missed a great opportunity that should have been your turning point towards the direction of greatness. What next? Go into your closet and learn your lessons; "opportunity missed may not be regained, but new opportunity can be recreated with the will that have to work harder!"
"When the boat is waiting for you, when the rows are waiting for you, when the calm sea is waiting for you, when the sun is waiting for you, when everything is ready to help you to move forward, be there or those who wait will go away!"
"If you cannot find the distinctive opportunities you want, you can create the distinctive opportunities you want but you can't find!"
"Everyone has their own calling, but not everyone is looking for the phone, or either they missed the call, or just not answered it."
"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."
"Luck appears when you are working towards it, not looking for it."
"When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?"
"When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
"Opportunities that always fail need change, else they will continue to keep failing till the future have its end."
"I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom."
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"As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching."
"If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own."
"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history."
"The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers."
"Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination."
"I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit."
"And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race."
"The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess."
"If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery."
"If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto."
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