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“The other was that all the major civil rights organizations, new as well as old, were committed to the philosophy of non-violence, the doctrine preached by the most conspicuous leader in the Negro movement, Martin Luther King. ‘We will soon wear you down by our capacity to suffer,’ he told the whites, ‘and in winning our freedom we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.”
― The Strange Career of Jim Crow
― The Strange Career of Jim Crow
“Because if we in America have reached the point in our desperate culture where we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive and probably won’t.”
― The Blood of Emmett Till
― The Blood of Emmett Till
“We do not have to become heroes overnight,” Eleanor once wrote. “Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.”
― No ordinary time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II
― No ordinary time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II
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