Read more“700 credit score communities don’t riot. You have never seen a ‘middle class’ community riot — in all of American history. Only 500 credit score communities — riot. Failed economics — in our lives — actually inspires frustration. Failed economics, in our broader communities, actually becomes an active breeding ground for anger, dissension, community angst.” John Hope Bryant, founder of Operation HOPE and the HOPE Global Forum
Read more“To live in a system of free enterprise, but not to understand the rules of free enterprise, must be the very definition of slavery.” HOPE Global Spokesman and civil rights icon, Ambassador Andrew Young.
Operation HOPE Quote of the Day
“Operation HOPE is about hope, financial dignity and empowerment = freedom. And freedom in the 21st century is defined as self-determination.” John Hope BryantRead more“Many people also don’t understand why I am not more ‘angry’ at the state of things, in our community, and in our world. The answer here is simple — at the end of the day, anger is not a strategy. Anger is an emotion, and an unhelpful one when you need to actually make really important decisions about your life.
No big decision you have ever made, was made better because you added anger to it. Even romantic love, needs some ‘reason’ attached to it, if it is to work.
In contrast to anger, hope ~ always works. There has never been an instance, where hope was inappropriate in your life.”
Read more“When you do what you are passionate about, you don’t get tired. You get worn out. You may be exhausted. But you actually love what you do, which is why you keep doing it — maybe to a point of ‘exhaustion.”
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