Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity and meaning in their job. – Scott and Kelly Blanchard

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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities. - Ida B. Wells

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Experience and enthusiasm are two fine business attributes seldom found in one individual.

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Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.

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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press. - Ida B. Wells

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They're going to clear cut your best thoughts for the sake of profit unless you learn to resist, because the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked!

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A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

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I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon. - Ida B. Wells

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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South. - Ida B. Wells

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