The heart fails not he who remembers yesterday . . . As for the man without experience who listens not, he effects nothing what-so-ever. He sees know-ledge in ignorance, profit in loss; he commits all kinds of error, always choosing the contrary of what is praiseworthy.
Ptahhotep
Forty-five hundred year old statue of the ancient Egyptian Vizier Ptahhotep.
Three hundred year old Russian icon of the Hebrew Prophet Hosea.
Three thousand years ago, the Prophet Hosea was inspired to admonish the Hebrews as follows: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.”
Hosea 4:6
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche explained: “Mixed races are the sources of great civilizations . . . never speak to a man who believes in the race fraud.”
“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way . . .”
Nicola Tesla
“An examination of Roman and Greek civilization clearly demonstrates why such late designations as African-Centric and Euro-Centric studies possess little meaning on the stage of world history. While I understand the evolution of this terminology—in truth—man’s past did not unfold in such vacuums. Thus, anyone genuinely desiring to comprehend the march of human progress must first understand that the most crucial factor in history is not race—it is Time! In the final analysis, those who fear the accurate chronicle of man’s past are not merely opposing the history, but future, of themselves . . .”
- RL Worthy
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Truth is good and its worth is lasting . . . He who transgresses its ordinances is punished. It lies a right path, even in front of the ignorant!
Ancient Egyptian Wisdom
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man
to enter into the Kingdom of God - MATTHEW 19: 22-24
“He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.”
William Drummond
The heralded Egyptian sage Ptahhotep explained: “Worthy speech is more hidden than a green stone (emerald), yet it may be found amongst a maiden at the millstone.”
This is a 4,000 year-old model of an ancient Egyptian woman working with grain to make beer. Photo by אילנה גורנופולסקי CC.
The phrase “Power concedes nothing without a demand” appears to have first been penned by Douglass in a letter to Gerrit Smith in 1849. He later delivered it in 1857 in a speech at Canandaigua in celebration of the emancipation of the British West Indies.
In view of the current rise in racism around the world, Black people would do well to reflect on this address delivered by the renowned twentieth-century Pan-Africanist, Marcus Garvey.