A crowd of about 80 people gathered by the steps of Campbell Hall.
That was when Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter and John Jerome Huggins Jr., UCLA students and members of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, were killed in room 1201 of Campbell.
An autumn Monday night in Scarborough is probably the most unlikely venue to celebrate one of the most iconic Black Power statements of the 20th Century.
“Our greatest sorrows and our greatest joys come in our interactions with other people. If it takes a lifetime to bless one life, what joy that can bring. And if, along the way, we bless and are blessed in turn by many others, what a rich life we will have had.”
It is easy to go through life going through the motions, but any great accomplishment requires a goal, and a plan of action. Most of the time we forget that nothing comes without some work.
Don’t be put off achieving your destiny, even if you have experienced failure in your life. Kept pressing on until they became successful. LIFE = RISK,
God, I thank you for this day.
I know I have not accomplished as yet all you expect of me, and if that is your reason for bathing me in the fresh dew of another dawn, I am most grateful.
“You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.” ~ Denis Waitley
There are many times we do things that are expected of us or just things that we think we should do. We execute these actions without feeling what we are doing. We are just going through the motions.
Mother’s Day has long been celebrated as a day to honour one’s mother. It is important for each of us to take the time to celebrate and thank our mothers for all that they are and for all that they do. But did you know that originally, way back in 1870, Mother’s Day was envisioned as a time for women to come together and unite for peace?
The ego is that part in us which feeds off praise, compliments and success. When we live in the ego we are inevitably subject to feelings of superiority / inferiority, pride and worthlessness, success and failure. If we want to avoid these negative emotions we need to transcend the ego.
