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"This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible."
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"A servant leader can always come down to the level of the one he is serving."
"I often ask myself, 'Who would Jesus vote for?' Then I start to think that he wouldn't vote at all; however, it would not be out of apathy or disinterest, but out of perfection and light. As a miracle worker, I think he would, by the power of God's teachings, the perseverance and the truth, influence in a modern sense whoever is put into office how to best serve his fellow men. One, like his skeptics, may find that impractical. But there is a message in that no man in power can slow the momentum of the will of God, and the miracles of his teachings will be forever victorious."
"If you see your country going through economic problems, the best thing to do is to come up with a strategy, plan and vision of how to affect the economy of the nation, rather than simply fixing your own individual economic problem."
"Thousands of pastors, Sunday school teachers, and Christian workers are powerless because they do not make the Word the source of their preaching or teaching."
"Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure."
"I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together."
"Leaders say "no" to corruption. Anyone playing a role in governance, and is not ready to do this is not a leader."
"A majority is always better than the best repartee."
"I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict."
"Accept the fact that you are the pivot along which the loads of your efforts will turn. Acknowledge yourself as the chairperson at the center of affairs management for your dreams. Take the chair and be at the fore-front."
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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."
"If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated."
"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."
"They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands."
"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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