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Today's Anniversary - 23rd May

Births

• 1882 - James Gleason
• 1944 - John Newcombe
• 1948 - Gary McCord
• 1910 - Franz Kline
• 1910 - Artie Shaw

Deaths

• 1934 - Bonnie Elizabeth Parker
• 2012 - Paul Fussell
• 1995 - Owen Hart
• 1906 - Henrik Ibsen
• 1868 - Kit Carson

• It means something for us to know that history and get some feel for who the people were.

  Julian Bond

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• I don’t think you’ll have to worry that this mental midget, this hillbilly Hitler from Alabama, is anywhere near becoming the nominee of the Democratic Party.

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• In some ways it reflects the realities of the 1950s: There were relatively few women in public leadership roles, … So that small subset that becomes prominent in civil rights would tend to be men. But that doesn’t excuse the way some women have just been written out of history.

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  Topics in History, Leadership

• When that message is coupled with anti-Semitism, with homophobia, with anti-Catholicism, and with a real contempt for American democracy, then the whole message becomes bankrupt and has to be discarded and set aside.

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• People see America through particular lenses, either their profession, their race or their gender. So the party that speaks to our racial perceptions and offers solutions to the racial difficulties which we face is the party that’s going to be rewarded with our votes.

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• As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

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• Many are attracted to social service-the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won’t need social service.

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• He always had such a fierce determination to fight segregation in every possible way.

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• She developed the King Center in Atlanta, and she made it possible for his message, particularly his emphasis on nonviolence which many people sort of have let slip — she helped keep that alive.

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• She was trained to be an opera singer. She gave concerts to raise money for him, and when he died she continued to try to keep his legacy alive.

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• She played a great role when her husband was alive in assisting him. They were truly partners in every sense.

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• What is less well understood about her after her husband’s death is the way she kept focused on the ideas of non-violence. She never abandoned that. She focused on the use of non-violence as a way to settle human conflicts.

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• Martin Luther King belonged to another transcendent generation. A generation born into segregation; a generation freed from racism’s restraints by their own efforts; a generation equally determined to see their way as free women and men.

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• The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

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• I’m old enough to remember when the political parties competed for the votes of African-Americans, and I’m old enough to remember when most black people were Republicans. The Republican Party was the party of Abraham Lincoln and could do no wrong.

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• Quiet example demonstrated to millions new ways to confront the evil of segregation.

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• It’s a cliche to say she was the mother of the civil rights movement, but she was.

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• She showed the world, not just me but everyone, what one person can do, … She is one person who sparked a movement whose ripples are still being felt, not just all over the country, but all over the world.

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• Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

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• Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years’ worth of education.

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