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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

Man,

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Man, Men, Society

"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Man, Right, Wind

"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Man,

"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Man, Men, Company, Grief

"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Man, Men, God, Statesman

"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Man,

"Produce great men, the rest follows."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Man, Men, Rest

"And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Man, May, Trade

"If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Man, Right, Wind

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"Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being."

Being

"Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude."

Attitude

"The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."

Mind

"You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway."

Care

"Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time."

Attitude

"It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality."

Change

"The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity."

Consciousness

"In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face."

Time

"Black man, you are on your own."

Man