Pride Message Board > Changing Ones Perspectives....

The following quotes are what drive me! When ever I am off my focus or not really handling "my business", I reach back and pick up my journal and turn to these quotes. Take a look at them and see if they can lift your perspective on our lives and the treatment of our people.

I am a firm believer in this quote, how about you?
You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.

------------------------------------------------------

Discuss these quotes and what the author was trying to convey.

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything . . . that smacks of discrimination or slander.


Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)
"Certain Unalienable Rights," What the Negro Wants, edited by Rayford W. Logan (1944)


------------------------------------------------------

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.


Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932)
The Marrow of Tradition (1901)


------------------------------------------------------

You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.

(Leroy) Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998)
speech given in San Francisco in 1968

January 4, 2008 | Registered CommenterEDC Creations PR