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Thursday, Feb 28, 2019“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nobel laureate, Baptist minister and civil rights leader.
(1929 - 1968)
Wednesday, Feb 27, 2019“To be successful, you have to plan your work and work your plan.”
Chapman R. Cannon, Jr.
American Entrepreneur.
(1934 - 2011)
Tuesday, Feb 26, 2019“Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.”
Satchel Paige
American professional baseball player.
(1906 - 1982)
Monday, Feb 25, 2019“Keep going, no matter what.”
Reginald F. Lewis
American businessman who built a billion-dollar company - Beatrice Foods.
(1942 - 1993)
Friday, Feb 22, 2019“Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to.”
Roscoe Dunjee
American journalist, newspaper editor and civil rights activist.
(1883 - 1965)
Thursday, Feb 21, 2019“Each person must live their life as a model for others.”
Rosa Parks
Activist in the American Civil Rights Movement.
(1913 - 2005)
Wednesday, Feb 20, 2019“With the process of discovery, you fail a lot. And you learn a great deal from those failures, so the next time you can avoid those mistakes.”
Robert F. Smith
American billionaire businessman, investor and philanthropist.
(1962 - present)
Tuesday, Feb 19, 2019“A Godless society, which considers any spiritual questions a dead letter, masks the emptiness of its materialism by killing time so as better to forget eternity.”
Robert Cardinal Sarah
Guinean Priest, Bishop & Author.
(1945 - present)
Monday, Feb 18, 2019“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.”
Thurgood Marshall
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
(1908 - 1993)
Friday, Feb 15, 2019“Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.”
Muhammad Ali
American professional boxer, activist and philanthropist.
(1942 - 2016)
Thursday, Feb 14, 2019“Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.”
Mary McLeod Bethune
American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian and civil rights activist.
(1875 - 1955)
Wednesday, Feb 13, 2019“Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.”
Shirley Chisholm
American politician, educator and author.
(1924 - 2005)
Tuesday, Feb 12, 2019“The best thing for us is not what we consider best, but what the Lord wants of us.”
St. Josephine Bakhita
Sudanese-Italian Canossian religious sister & former slave.
(1869 - 1947)
Monday, Feb 11, 2019“There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.”
George Washington Carver
American botanist and inventor.
(1860s - 1943)
Friday, Feb 08, 2019“The means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.”
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nobel laureate, Baptist minister and civil rights leader.
(1929 - 1968)
Thursday, Feb 07, 2019“If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.”
Sarah Breedlove, known as Madam C. J. Walker
American entrepreneur, philanthropist and social activist.
(1867 - 1919)
Wednesday, Feb 06, 2019“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous.”
Frederick Douglass
American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer and statesman.
(1818 - 1895)
Tuesday, Feb 05, 2019“Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.”
Jesse Owens
Four-time Olympic Gold Medalist.
(1913 - 1980)
Monday, Feb 04, 2019“I have a deep-seated bias against hate and intolerance. I have a bias against racial and religious bigotry. I have a bias that leads me to believe in the essential goodness of my fellow man, which leads me to believe that no problem of human relations is ever insoluble.”
Ralph Johnson Bunche
American political scientist, academic, diplomat and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
(1904 - 1971)
Friday, Feb 01, 2019“If a man's deeds are not in harmony with his prayer, he labors in vain.”
St. Moses the Ethiopian
Ascetic monk and priest (one of the Desert Fathers).
(330AD - 405AD)
