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Friday, Feb 28, 2025“The breadth of life is the outward concern for the welfare of others. The height of life is the upward reach for God. ”
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nobel laureate, Baptist minister and civil rights leader.
(1929 - 1968)
Thursday, Feb 27, 2025“Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.”
Thurgood Marshall
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
(1908 - 1993)
Wednesday, Feb 26, 2025“The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at. ”
Jesse Owens
Four-time Olympic Gold Medalist.
(1913 - 1980)
Tuesday, Feb 25, 2025“Systemic racism is not the cause of this crisis in low-income, predominantly Black neighborhoods, but rather, systemic betrayal by those governing officials who look like, but don't look out for, those they serve. ”
Robert L. Woodson, Sr.
American civil rights activist, community development leader, and author.
(1937 - present)
Monday, Feb 24, 2025“Believe in yourself, learn, and never stop wanting to build a better world. ”
Mary McLeod Bethune
American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian and civil rights activist.
(1875 - 1955)
Friday, Feb 21, 2025“[The family] is nourished and lubricated by mutual love, strengthened by sacrifice and healed by forgiveness and reconciliation. ”
Francis Cardinal Arinze
Nigerian priest, bishop, and author.
(1932 - present)
Thursday, Feb 20, 2025“Whether we want to own up to it or not, the welfare state has done what Jim Crow, gross discrimination and poverty could not have done. It has contributed to the breakdown of the black family structure and has helped establish a set of values alien to traditional values of high moral standards, hard work, and achievement. ”
Walter E. Williams
American economist, educator, and author.
(1936 - 2020)
Wednesday, Feb 19, 2025“No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”
Maya Angelou
American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist.
(1928 - 2014)
Tuesday, Feb 18, 2025“The real goal should be to reduce government spending, rather than increasing tax rates to cover ever-rising spending.”
Thomas Sowell
American economist & National Humanities Medal recipient.
(1930 - present)
Monday, Feb 17, 2025“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. ”
Malcolm X
American human rights activist.
(1925 - 1965)
Friday, Feb 14, 2025“To love is to will the good of the other. ”
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Dominican Friar, Priest & One of the Thirty-Seven Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1225 - 1274)
Thursday, Feb 13, 2025“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.”
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States of America.
(1809 - 1865)
Wednesday, Feb 12, 2025“I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph.”
John H. Johnson
Founder of Johnson Publishing Company.
(1918 - 2005)
Tuesday, Feb 11, 2025“You'll never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats, procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.”
Thomas Sowell
American economist & National Humanities Medal recipient.
(1930 - present)
Monday, Feb 10, 2025“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. ”
Muhammad Ali
American professional boxer, activist and philanthropist.
(1942 - 2016)
Friday, Feb 07, 2025“Love is the greatest force in the universe. It is the heartbeat of the moral cosmos. He who loves is a participant in the being of God.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nobel laureate, Baptist minister, and civil rights leader.
(1929 - 1968)
Thursday, Feb 06, 2025“Without Divine assistance I cannot succeed; with it I cannot fail!”
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States of America.
(1809 - 1865)
Wednesday, Feb 05, 2025“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
Booker T. Washington
American educator, author, orator, and former slave.
(1856 - 1915)
Tuesday, Feb 04, 2025“The crucial question for any policy is not what, are its intentions, but what are its effects?”
Walter E. Williams
American economist, educator and author.
(1936 - 2020)
Monday, Feb 03, 2025“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nobel laureate, Baptist minister, and civil rights leader.
(1929 - 1968)
