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“42. Your process of thinking should change as you get older. If it doesn’t, then you haven’t grown up.   If you still have the same mindset and perception of life that you had 10 plus years ago, then you are still a child. And this is the problem with many black communities today; we are grown up children, still looking, talking, and acting like we did when we were kids. Back in the day, you could tell a man from a boy or a woman from a girl by the way he/she dressed and talked. But today, you have to see someone drivers license in order to tell their age. This is a sign that we as a people are still stuck in our youth. And until our way of thinking matures, our circumstances will remain the same.”
― Maurice W. Lindsay, Wake Up To Your True Identity: 144 Empowering Proverbs For People of The African Diaspora

“The real goal, however, was not to defeat the white man, but “to awaken a sense of shame within the oppressor and challenge his false sense of superiority.… The end is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the beloved community” where all men would treat each other as brothers and equals. “There are great resources of goodwill in the southern white man that we must somehow tap,”
― David J. Garrow, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

“Negativity is everywhere. And if you don’t consistently program your mind with something positive; it will be programmed for you with something negative.”
― Maurice W. Lindsay, Wake Up To Your True Identity: 144 Empowering Proverbs For People of The African Diaspora

“Mass action by everyday black people was just as powerful a tool for social change as the lawsuit, and maybe more so. If”
― David J. Garrow, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference