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“I suggest to you, late or not late, the moment you have discovered that the mission of someone is to pee on your dreams, keep him away or keep away from him.”

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“Some bad friends are so crafty in such a way that by the time their mission is reveal, they have already executed portions of it.”

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“Five people with passion can do better than fifty people with mere desire or interest.”

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“A leader’s meal is that unstoppable desire to stay late to see his dreams achieved. They never give up.”

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“Leaders fight hard wars against injustice and unfairness. They believe that the truth is a weapon; when triggered, the lie dies.”

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“If you hate to think, you are not different from some who is peeing on his academic certificates. The goal of education is to help you to think and lead.”

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“Moreover, when the issues at hand seem as perplexing as they often do in the case of this dreadful conflict, we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty. But we must move on. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.”

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“Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle down for survival.”

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“Make your education valuable. Apply what you learnt. Refuse to take the back seat and watch things happen. Join the change and be part of the change.”

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“Most of the world’s problems are caused by people who made education compulsory, but personal development optional. Because of them, we have many intelligent people who lack good characters.”

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“The essence of one life is empowering another life, and so your passion has to be linked to the liberation of other people’s happiness.”

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“You know, I gave you the benefit of the doubt earlier when I first encountered you, the raging beast—oh I mean bitch. But now I truly think that if greats who devoted themselves and achieved in some way at killing evil with kindness like Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Mandela, Mother Teresa, well I think if any of them met you... they truly would break that seal of devotion and beat the bloody shit out of you.” “I take that as a compliment.” “Oh, I know you do.”

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“Most times, the leader’s ornament isn’t the smiles you see on their faces during the time of victory. It is the sweats we don’t see when they were struggling behind the scenes.”

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“Remember, one step leads to the other and therefore never neglect the first step. It will give you the confidence you need to sail through with victory”

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“A leader’s cross is the temporal pain they go through and his crown is the permanent gain when at last victory is achieved.”

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“The only person to influence the direction and purpose of your life is the one who gave it. God!”

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“Try not to leave your work for someone else to do. If possible, carry the work of someone and add it to yours. That's a trait of leaders!”

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“When you are silent on the truth, you have given a transport fare for the lie to travel and spread fast.”

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“Good people who are always silent for bad people to gain freedom and do their worsts are the most dangerous wastes the world ever has.”

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“Silence is very dangerous, especially when your words can be the only source of healing at a moment.”

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“I noticed that volcanoes, earthquakes and floods, though are not good events, they are better than the silence of good people when bad people take the podium. The latter are to an extent uncontrollable, but the former can be stopped.”

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“You missed it when you pay more attention to the damaged car in the mechanic shop than the sick human being in the hospital.”

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“Haters can never rejoice especially when their enemy wins. The moment you can’t be happy when someone wins, watch yourself. That habit is not good for you.”

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“Let these words be your guide; money or no money, houses or no houses, cars or no cars, never turn down the divine assignment of God for your life. Become an inspiration to another life through good service and healthy relationship.”

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“Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.”

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“It is as simple as that. Birds fly because they have wings and so when you can’t grow the wings, you can’t be called a bird. Leaders make impacts because they create new ideas and so if you can’t think of any new innovative ideas, you can’t be a leader.”

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“We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization - black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion and love.... What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.”

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“Most of the people who attempt to draw back the success of the world are those who don’t care about anything. They live life every day without asking why.”

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“When you give up because challenges arise, you are just too ignorant about the power of the gifts you carry within you.”

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“And don’t forget, if you are very intelligent but load yourself with bad characters, nobody will follow you.”

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“Ballot papers don’t determine who leads; they determine who takes which position. As to whether that person occupying the position will lead or will manipulate, character must come to prove it.”

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“I was taught that the most hardworking nurse is found at the dirtiest part of the clinical ward.”

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“Where is the Palestinian Martin Luther King? I’ve heard said on more than one occasion, never accompanied by any self-reflection as to what kind of society necessitates a man like that, nor what that society ultimately did to him before his posthumous veneration. The implicit accusation is that certain people are incapable of responding to their mistreatment with grace, with patience, with love, and that this incapacity, not any external injustice, is responsible for the misery inflicted upon them.”

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Book:One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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