Real education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin life as they find it and make it better... Carter G. Woodson from "The Mis-Education Of The Negro", Africa World Press, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1990
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Carter G. Woodson
1875 - 1950 |
"Your ancestors took the lash, the branding iron, humiliations and oppression because one day they believed you would come along to flesh out the dream." --Maya Angelou from the America I AM Journal, Edited by Clarence Reynolds, Smiley Books
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Dr. Maya Angelou
1928-2014 |
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. --Arthur Ashe, Humanitarian and World Class Tennis Star
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1943 - 1993 |
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Thank you very much for sharing this! I will also share this with my readers.
Thank you for this because it "fleshes out" my own ignorance!
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