Sunday, September 27, 2009

They say it much better than I ever could


One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings. ~Franklin Thomas



The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird


Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color. ~Author Unknown


And finally:


I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

5 comments:

mel said...

I was always inspired by the fact that Rosa Parks said she wouldn't move to the back of the bus on the day that I was born, December 1, 1955.

JuJu said...

That is very cool Mel! Plus, now I know when your birthday is!

Mary said...
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Mary said...

Love this post. Makes me feel a bit better about that horrible story we heard Friday night!!!

Jan, David, Rose and Grace said...

I have to add one of my favorites:

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
— Dr. Martin Luther King

Great entry, Judi!