Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Malcolm X

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There is no better teacher than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Malcolm X

Stumbling is not falling.

Malcolm X

My Alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Malcolm X

The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

Malcolm X

If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

If you’d like to learn more about Malcolm X, here’s his Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X

I hope you are all having a great week!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – William Blake

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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

William Blake

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

William Blake

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

William Blake

A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

William Blake

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

William Blake

For more information about William Blake, here’s a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake

All quotes from BrainyQuote.com

Have a great Wednesday, folks!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Marcus Aurelius

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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Marcus Aurelius

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Marcus Aurelius

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Marcus Aurelius

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aurelius

Here is the Wikipedia link for Marcus Aurelius: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius This is a very interesting read, should you care to learn more.

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Charles de Gaulle

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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Charles de Gaulle

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Charles de Gaulle

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles de Gaulle

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Charles de Gaulle

Old age is a shipwreck.

Charles de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle is one of the many icons of the WWII era. For most, he is well known. For those who do not know who he is, here’s a wikipedia link for your convenience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle

I hope you enjoyed today’s quotes. Have a great Wednesday!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Octavia E. Butler

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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.

Octavia E. Butler

I’m comfortably asocial – a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I’m not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.

Octavia E. Butler

You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.

Octavia E. Butler

Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.

Octavia E. Butler

Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

Octavia E. Butler

Part of my joy of posting these quotes is not the quotes themselves, but the investigation of who this person is. In this case, Octavia E. Butler is one of America’s Science Fiction Writers. I’ll let you read more at this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_E._Butler

This is yet another fascinating story of someone I never knew before. I hope you enjoyed these quotes. Have a great Wednesday!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Confucius

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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Confucius

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Confucius

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Confucius

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

Confucius

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Confucius

For those of you who would like to learn more about Confucius and the time he lived, here’s a Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius

I hope you have a terrific Wednesday!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Hosea Ballou

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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Hosea Ballou

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Hosea Ballou

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

Hosea Ballou

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Hosea Ballou

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Hosea Ballou

Here is a Wikipedia link for those of you who would like to know more about this interesting individual: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosea_Ballou

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Irish-American Heritage

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In honor of National Irish-American Heritage month in the United States, we’ll start off with John F. Kennedy.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

John F. Kennedy

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

John F. Kennedy

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

John F. Kennedy

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

John F. Kennedy

For more information about John F. Kennedy, America’s 35th President. Here’s his Wikipedia page, if you’d like to learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy

Have a great Wednesday, folks!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Ida B. Wells

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Photo credit: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ida-b-wells-barnett

“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”
― Ida B. Wells-Barnett

“one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap”
― Ida B. Wells

“A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.”
― Ida B. Wells-Barnett

“If Southern white men are not careful, they will overreach themselves and public sentiment will have a reaction; a conclusion will then be reached which will be very damaging to the moral reputation of their women.”
― Ida B. Wells-Barnett, The Red Record

“Burning and torture here lasts but a little while, but if I die with a lie on my soul, I shall be tortured forever. I am innocent.”
― Ida B. Wells-Barnett, The Red Record

Ida B. Wells was addressed yesterday as well, and I felt it wise to honor her again. Her work shined a light on the lynchings of the South. She was another firebrand responsible for the greater civil rights movement to come. Here’s her Wikipedia link in case some of you would like to learn more about this trailblazer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells

Here’s another link to Ida B. Well’s place in the National Women’s History Museum: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ida-b-wells-barnett

As we approach the end of Black History Month, ponder the challenges, sacrifices, and dangers the members of the civil rights movement faced. This is a true testament of bravery in the face of death threats, violence, and a government that did not want to do the right thing.

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – Rosa Parks

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To continue with Rosa Parks from our educational video on her life yesterday, here are 5 quotes of wisdom from her. Enjoy!

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Rosa Parks

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.

Rosa Parks

People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically… No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Rosa Parks

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Rosa Parks

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.

Rosa Parks

Check out this link to Brittanica on Rosa Parks: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rosa-Parks

Until next time…

Dave