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For #BlackHistoryMonth, I'll be sharing daily quotes from black thinkers who contributed to the philosophy of self-reliance in their writing or work.
"Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them." -Madam C. J. Walker
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"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be." ― James Baldwin
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“We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign." -Marcus Garvey.
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"Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -Frederick Douglass
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"The most important thing to remember is this: to be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become." -W.E.B. Du Bois
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"I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go." -Langston Hughes
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"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."
-Malcolm X
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"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it."
-Muhammad Ali
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"People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools."
-Alice Walker
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“Don't count the days, make the days count.”
-Muhammad Ali