As a revolutionary, always remember that the enemy uses multiple tactics against you, among which is to provoke you to anger. When you feel provoked to anger, remember these rules:
1. Hold yourself back by either smiling or being silent. A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back or smiles the anger away.
2. When provoked to anger, quickly recall the saying: “A man of wrath stirs up strife, and one given to anger causes many transgressions.”
3. Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil. You can do so by pressing your teeth against each other. Closing anger by the teeth is a habit we should all learn.
4. When words that stab you to anger are thrown, respond with a soft answer because the soft answer isn’t a weakness but it turns away wrath, while a harsh word stirs up anger. Don’t forget that the tongue of the wise commands knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.
5. Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
6. Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
7. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Anger is a cancer to the revolutionary spirit.
8. It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful friend. A man of quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated.
9. Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
10. A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls. Remember the rule: Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. To abide by this rule, you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.
No matter how harsh an insult thrown at you, they are only empty wind if you don’t accept the invitation to anger. Comrades must always resist the urge and temptation to voice out anger.
Enjoy the remaining days of the week….!!
Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, PhD
Editor~in~Chief
Africanist Press
USA