Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Black people dont have an accurate idea of their history, which ha

Black people dont have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Equality
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I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Dreams
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I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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teacher
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In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated. – John McCarthy

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Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God. – Sun Myung Moon

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History

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. – Paul Valery

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The obscurest epoch is today. – Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the Plains

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. – Plutarch

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It is important not to trust people too much. – V. S. Naipaul

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