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In that moment and for that audience, the story of the Qurʾanic prophet was no longer a tale from a faraway past, depicted in a foreign language of an old and exotic scripture, or in a seemingly neutral translation by a foreign Muslim
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“Success always leaves footprints.”
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“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
― Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings
― Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings
“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.”
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“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
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“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”
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