David Walker Quotes

• Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.

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  Order, Bridges, Empowering

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• Let no man of us budge one step, and let slaveholders come to beat us from our country. America is more our country, than it is the whites-we have enriched it with our blood and tears. The greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears.

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  Country, Men, Blood

  David Walker (1965). “David Walker's Appeal: In Four Articles, Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, But in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America”

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• Now, I ask you, had you not rather be killed than to be a slave to a tyrant, who takes the life of your mother, wife, and dear little children? Look upon your mother, wife and children, and answer God Almighty; and believe this, that it is no more harm for you to kill a man who is trying to kill you, than it is for you to take a drink of water when thirsty.

  David Walker

  Mother, Children, Believe

  David Walker (2011). “Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles: Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America”, p.30, Univ of North Carolina Press

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• I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation.

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  Fire, Tree, May

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• The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and mothers?-Or do they wish us to return thanks to them for chaining and handcuffing us, branding us, cramming fire down our throats, or for keeping us in slavery, and beating us nearly or quite to death to make us work in ignorance and miseries, to support them and their families. They certainly think we are a gang of fools.

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  Mother, Father, Grateful

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• Church should be a place where love is evident, God delivers, lives are changed, hearts are healed, and families restored.

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  Heart, Love Is, Church

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• Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through other’s eyes.

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  Eye, Thoughtful, Giving

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• I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.

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  Ignorant, Half, Earth

  David Walker (2008). “Walker's Appeal”, p.28, Applewood Books

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• To me, the real marks of beauty in a woman are courage, character, kindness, and personality.

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  Kindness, Real, Character

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• Allowing God to charge our lives that we may empower people around us to live In a greater relationship with him.

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  People, Empowering, May

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• Karate is not about winning over others. It is about winning over one's self. Ultimately, the most challenging opponents we face reside from within - our hang-ups, our insecurities, our prejudices. Overcome these and you will have truly won.

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  Winning, Self, Challenges

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• Our government has made a whole lot of promises that, in the long run, it cannot possibly keep without huge tax increases.

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  Running, Government, Long

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• I believe that the making of art is primarily for the benefit of the artist. If what the artist has created communicates messages and feelings to others, then it is because of the universality of the human experience that is speaking through the work of art.

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  Art, Believe, Communication

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• Just five years ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a Web site.

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  Years, Waste, Dollars

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• Karate is for life, not points.

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  Art, Martial Arts, Karate

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• In contrast, the 'Old Europe' channels were showing film from reporters who had embedded themselves at the wrong end of the Baghdad blitz and the Basra bombardment. These films depicted the shattered homes, the killed and grieving civilians and the infrastructure chaos our armed forces are creating daily. Since this footage (none of it bearing the al-Jazeera logo) clearly exists, why does the Western media studiously ignore it or, when confronted by it, claim it to be Iraqi propaganda.

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  Home, Grieving, Usa

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• It certainly makes sense to expand the pulp industry in Indonesia, .. It's clear that it will be a very competitive exporter of pulp to the rest of the world, including China and India. So the interest by the Indonesian government is clearly to establish a really competitive plantation fiber base to support a globally attractive export industry.

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  Government, Support, Competition

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• Usually the way to screw up some good fishing is to have a tournament. This just keeps getting better and better.

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  Fishing, Get Better, Screw Ups

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• Well, it was just, the bars was all just like the bamboo roofs and everything. You know. As I say, to me, it's completely spoiled all, all these places now. Make them all just tourist traps.

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  Tourism, Tourists, Bars

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