Quitting Is Not An Option For Us!

“So, you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage; lost their customs, traditions, and language and picked up English as best they could while working free of charge from sunup to sundown; watched their babies sold out of their arms and women raped by ruthless slave owners.

They took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind; braved the Underground Railroad; survived the Civil War to enter into sharecropping; learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination; faced the burning crosses of the KKK; everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hung on trees; fought in World Wars as soldiers to return to America as boys; marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood, and vilified in the news.

And, in spite of it all, someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here and you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit? How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting! People you will never know survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t you dare let them down!

Pass this information on to your young people who don’t know their history and want to get weak! It is NOT in our DNA to quit!” - Anthony Mack