An excerpt from an 1852 speech by Frederick Douglass, titled ‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?‘:
Would you have me argue that man is entitled to liberty? That he is the rightful owner of his own body? You have already declared it. Must I argue the wrongfulness of slavery? Is that a question [...]
The most lethal weapon in the world’s arsenals is not the neutron bomb or chemical warfare; but the human mind that devises such things and puts them to use. But it is the human mind also that can summon up the power to resist, that can imagine a better world than the one before it, [...]
Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.
- Dr. Seuss
A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man should have to seek Him first to find her.
- Maya Angelou
(thanks Sacrosanct)
“The Black Man in America has been colonized mentally, his mind has been destroyed. And today, even though he goes to college, he comes out and still doesn’t even know he is a Black Man; he is ashamed of what he is because his culture has been destroyed; he has been made to hate his [...]
“The word ’shams’ (sun) is feminine, and the word ‘qamar’ (moon) is masculine. The sun burns itself out to give light and life to everything around, and the moon is ‘muneer’, meaning it reflects the light. Within itself it has no light; it radiates the brilliance of the sun. So when we shine as [...]
