1.
The job of arousing manhood within a people that have been taught for so many centuries that they are nobody is not
easy.
It is no easy job to educate a people who have been told over centuries that they were inferior and of
no importance to see that they are humans, the same as any other people.
2.
Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.
If you break the mental shackles imposed on you by white supremacists, if you really respect yourself, thinking that you are a
Man, equal to anyone else, you will be able to take part in the struggle against racial discrimination.
3.The Negro will only be free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of
assertive manhood his own emancipation proclamation.
The liberation of mind can only be achieved by the Negro himself/herself. Only when he/she is fully convinced that he/she is a
Man/Woman and is not inferior to anyone else, can be he/she throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and become free.
4.Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that
stands against that stands against love.
Power
in
the
best
form
of
function
is
the
carrying
out of
the
demands
of
justice with
love
and
justice
in
the
best
form
of
function is the overcoming of everything standing in the way of love with power.
5.At that time, economic status was considered the measure of the individual
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s ability and talents.
At that time, the way to evaluate how capable and resourceful a person was to see how much money he had made(or how
wealthy he was).
6.The absence of worldly goods indicated a want of industrious habits and moral fiber.
A person was poor because he was lazy and not hard-working and lacked a sense of right and wrong.
7.It is not the work of slaves driven to their tasks either by the task, by the taskmaster or by animal necessity.
This kind of work cannot be done by slaves who work because the work has to be done, because they are forced to work by
slave-drivers or because they need to work in order to be fed and clothed.
8.When the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated.
When the unfair practice of judging human value by the amount of money a person has got is done away with.
9.
He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate
reality.
Those
who
harbor
hate
in
their
hearts
cannot
grasp
the
teachings
of
God.
Only
those
who
have love can enjoy the ultimate happiness in Heaven.
10.Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds.
Let us be dissatisfied until America no longer only talk about racial equality but is unwilling or reluctant to take action to end
such evil practices racial as racial discrimination.
1.
I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size.
I imagined myself being different types of prodigy, trying to find out which type would best suit me.
2.
I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won
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ts.
Some new thoughts came to my mind, thoughts that I deliberately wanted to be disobedient, or to be more exact, thoughts
that I would say lots of
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I won
鈥?/p>
t
鈥?/p>
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to my mother.
3.
The girl had a sauciness of a Shirley Temple.
The girl was somewhat like Shirley Temple, a bit rude, but in an amusing way.
4.
It felt like worms and toads and slimy things crawling out of my chest, but it also felt good, as if this awful side of me had
surfaced, at last.
While saying these, I was scared as if some very unpleasant, horrible things had got out
of
my
chest;
but
at
the
same
time,
I felt a
bit
delighted
for
I was finally
able
to make
this
awful
part
of
me
known
to
my
mother.
5.
And I could sense her anger rising to its breaking point, I wanted to see it spill over.
And I could feel that her anger was coming to the point where her endurance and self-control would collapse, but I wanted to
see what exactly she would do when that happened.
6.
The lid to the piano was closed, shutting out the dust, my misery, and her dreams.
When the lid to the piano was closed, it not only shut out the dust but also put an end to my misery and my mother
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s dreams
as well.
1.
Yet globalization
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Is a reality, not a choice.
However, as one report said, globalization
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is now an ordinary fact of life, not something one can choose to have or not.
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2.
Popular factions sprout to exploit nationalist anxieties.