“The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give. When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great a risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life. The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.” KnowsMenGivingShouldWellsDoeHomeRunningLawUsedBlackWhiteTeachGreaterRiskHonorLessonsShould HaveVictimRefuseProtectionDustYieldWhite ManPonderingRiflesAmerican LifeInsultedBitingOutragedCringeAggressorsAfros Book:On Lynchings Source: On Lynchings
“The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it springs from the collective consciousness of our culture - but instead it teaches us to value abstract rewards at the expense of our autonomy, curiosity, interior lives, and time.” GivingShouldHumansLongDoeValuesCultureProcessHuman BeingsConsciousnessTeachBirthSpringRewardsCuriosityAbstractCollectivesExpensesInteriorsAutonomySchoolingLife And TimeCollective Consciousness Book:A Language Older Than Words Source: A Language Older Than Words
“We don't give federal grants to tobacco companies to teach students 'low-risk' forms of smoking on the grounds that 'kids are going to smoke anyway.' We shouldn't be giving federal grants to groups that sell contraception, to teach kids to use contraception.” GivingUseKidsFormCompanyTeachRiskGroupsStudentsLowsSellsSmokeSmokingGrantsTobaccoContraception Author:Jennifer Morse
“Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors.” MenGivingIndividualTeachTeachingDignityNeighbor Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“I think God leaves me alone to let me find my own strength because no one else can give it to me. Sometimes it is very lonely. But I know the lonely times teach me the most. I must let go in order to let anything in. No one can love me, for me.” ThinkingKnowsGivingSometimesOrderMy OwnTeachLetting GoLonelyLet MeLeaving MeMe AloneLeave Me Alone Author:Sabrina Ward Harrison
“Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll evolve to become so skilled at fishing he destroys the ocean and kills every last fish.” MenGivingLastsTeachOceanFishesEvolveFishingTeach A Man To Fish Author:Craig Stone