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“This is an everyday question and you must take note of it always. When you wake up, it should be among your number one thoughts. What are you doing for others?”

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“Don’t only think of which job to get and live on. Think about which problem to solve and the jobs will keep suggesting themselves.”

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“And you told us: the storm is rising against the privileged minority of the earth, from which there is no shelter in isolation or armament and you told us: the storm will not abate until a just distribution of the fruits of the earth enables men (and women) everywhere to live in dignity and human decency.”

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“Cruel people are not only people who kill innocent people with guns. Individuals who steal from government coffers to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor are grossly cruel.”

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“Would people be excited about your departure from the earth or they would wish you should come back again and again if possible?”

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“At the end of it all, it is our relationship with people that will determine whether they will share in our pain if we fall into dangers.”

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“Avoid trying to win tough battles on the silver platter. If the struggle is tough the success is sweet.”

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“Get this; without a continuous struggle, your previous struggles will become a waste. Stay on and hold on until the success become evident.”

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“The change the world needs is not in the hand of everyone who is alive. It is in the works of those who deliberately contribute to make it a better place.”

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“If you’re going to give up after few attempts, bear it in mind that your struggles are going to be wasted.”

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“Bear it in mind that people who do not take actions are not and cannot be leaders. Leadership is action.”

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“The essence of adversity is to show us the real brave people who can withstand it.”

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“Everyone appears to be courageous until bad weathers arrive, and then we know the true leaders.”

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“People who run away from challenges are cowards and no coward deserves a reward.”

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“People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success; that’s the job of vision.”

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“Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark.”

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“The most difficult step ever is the first step. It comes with doubts, uncertainties, and all sort of fears. If you defy all odd and take it, your confidence will replicate very fast and you'll become a master!”

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“The rise or fall, success or failure of your dreams is largely dependent on the association you build yourself around.”

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“God has wrought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create-and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many different situations. Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life’s difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph. This is triumphant music. Modern Jazz has continued in this tradition, singing the songs of a more complicated urban existence. When life itself offers no order and meaning, the musician creates an order and meaning from the sounds of the earth which flow through his instrument. It is no wonder that so much of the search for identity among American Negroes was championed by Jazz musicians. Long before the modern essayists and scholars wrote of racial identity as a problem for a multiracial world, musicians were returning to their roots to affirm that which was stirring within their souls. Much of the power of our Freedom Movement in the United States has come from this music. It has strengthened us with its sweet rhythms when courage began to fail. It has calmed us with its rich harmonies when spirits were down. And now, Jazz is exported to the world. For in the particular struggle of the Negro in America there is something akin to the universal struggle of modern man. Everybody has the Blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called Jazz, there is a stepping stone towards all of these.”

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“I trust that you are aware that today’s success is tomorrow’s mediocrity. This means anything appealing today will be appalling tomorrow.”

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“King had marched six weeks earlier through the Mississippi town where the civil rights workers Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner were murdered. He had called it the most savage place he had ever seen. Now he revised his opinion: 'I think the people of Mississippi ought to come to Chicago to learn how to hate.”

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“Every talent God has hidden in you is not for your own consumption; they are for other people’s liberation.”

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“A jail within a jail. In those long hours, he struggled over Reverend King's equation. "Throw us in jail and we will love you ... But be assured that we will wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win our freedom for ourselves, we will so appeal to your heart and your conscience that we will win you in the process and our victory will be a double victory." No he could not make that leap to love. He understood neither the impulse of the proposition nor the will to execute it.”

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“The height of your success will be measured with reference to the depth from which you started.”

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“I later read a survey about Southerners' knowledge of the War; only half of those aged eighteen to twenty-four could name a single battle, and only one in eight knew if they had a Confederate ancestor. This was a long way from the experience of earlier generations, smothered from birth in the thick gravy of Confederate culture and schooled on textbooks that were little more than Old South propaganda. In this sense, ignorance might prove a blessing. Knowing less about the past, kids seemed less attached to it. Maybe the South would finally exorcise its demons by simply forgetting the history that created them. But Alabaman's seemed to have also let go of the more recent and hopeful history embodied in Martin Luther King's famous speech. "I have a dream," he said, of an Alabama where "black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.”

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“You don’t need a huge number of people with little passions to get a good job done. You rather need few people with huge passion.”

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“What it takes is the passion to lead and the commitment to that passion through a lifetime. A great number isn’t bad though, but doesn’t take numbers to change the world.”

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“If you are an aspiring leader and you have not yet gone through any trouble, prepare for one. It is by going through the hard times that you become harder against the storms of life.”

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“True leaders are willing to die for their dreams. They don't oppress with ignorance; they impress with visions". They live like Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela...”

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“Keep to active learning. You must learn, research and be so passionate about new ways and methods of doing things to be and remain relevant.”

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“The same styles you used earlier may become monotonous over time. You want to remain relevant, so you got to change that style.”

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“The same styles you used earlier may become monotonous over time. You want to remain relevant, so you got to change that style. Reinvent yourself always: You must create a new you”

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