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Lesson one Paraphrase and Translation Paraphrase 1. The job of arousing manhood within a people that have been taught for so many centuries that they are nobody is not easy. (3) It is not easy to make a people realize that they are human beings with equal rights, since for many centuries they have been told that they are inferior and of no importance. 2. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery. (5) If you break the mental shackles imposed on you by white supremacists, if you really respect yourself, thinking that you are a Man, equal to anyone else, you will be able to take part in the struggle against racial discrimination. 3. The Negro will only be free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of assertive manhood his own emancipation proclamation. (5) The liberation of mind can only be achieved by the Negro himself/herself. Only when he/she is fully convinced that he/she is a Man/Woman and is not inferior to anyone else, can he/she throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and become free. 4. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. (8) Power in the best form of function is the carrying out of the demands of justice with love and justice in the best form of function is the overcoming of everything standing in the way of love with power. 5. At that time economic status was considered the measure of the individual’s ability and talents. (10) At that time, the way to evaluate how capable and resourceful a person was to see how much money he had made (or how wealthy he was). 6. …the absence of worldly goods indicated a want of industrious habits and moral fiber. (10) A person was poor because he was lazy and lacked a sense of right and wrong. 7. It is not the work of slaves driven to their tasks either by the task, by the taskmaster