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Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect…

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Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for…
Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people…
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in…
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that…
A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.
What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of…
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and…
Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains…
Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or…
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

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Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without… — John Henrik Clarke
He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper. — Unknown Author
Any eyes on me - a late-night street sweeper, some dude texting in his parked car, the homeless guy talking to himself… — Rodney Mullen
A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Hello from the gutters of NYC, which is filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine,and blood. Hello from the sewers of… — David Berkowitz
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper. — Swami Vivekananda
Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am very fit and by playing sweeper I can control the speed of the game. — Ruud Gullit
If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own… — Charles Caleb Colton
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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