Why are we,
as a nation so obsessed with foreign things?
Is it a legacy of our colonial years?
We want foreign television sets.
We want foreign shirts.
We want foreign technology.
Why this obsession with everything imported?
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Why are we,
as a nation so obsessed with foreign things?
Is it a legacy of our colonial years?
We want foreign television sets.
We want foreign shirts.
We want foreign technology.
Why this obsession with everything imported?
The difference between successful people
and really successful people
is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.
Men make history,
and not the other way around.
In periods where there is no leadership,
society stands still.
After two years at UCLA,
I decided to leave.
I was convinced that no amount of education
would help a black man get a job.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine
but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet,
and the cause and prevention of disease.
Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship,
I am disposed to endulge the professors of,
Christianity in the church,
that road to heaven which to them,
shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.
I was losing interest in politics,
when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.
What I have done since then is pretty well known.
Upon the subjects of which I have treated,
I have spoken as I have thought.
I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but,
holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be
right than at all times to be wrong,
so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous,
I shall be ready to renounce them.