Benjamin Ward (August 10, 1926 - June 10, 2002) was the first African American New York City Police Commissioner. Ward was one of 11 children and was born in the Weeksville section of Brooklyn, New York.
Read more about Benjamin Ward: Military and Police Experience, Ward's Involvement With The Cover-up At Harlem Mosque #7, Career in New York City and State Government, Life After Retirement, Death
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“The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out.... Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.”
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