As fantastical as America’s space ambitions might have seemed, sending a man into space was starting to feel like a straightforward task compared to putting black and white students together in the same Virginia classrooms.
Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned.. Everything is war. Me say war. That until the're no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any nation.. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Until the color of a...
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Haile Selassie
When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back
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Lee Benson
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,...
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Harper Lee
And Charles turned around and called back without thinking, 'You know, you're awfully lucky you boys are white.' He didn't know why he said it. It had broken out of him. He'd wanted to speak with love: that was all that he'd asked for that...
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Kaitlyn Greenidge
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
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Muhammad Ali
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Women, on the other hand, had to wield their intellects like a scythe, hacking away against the stubborn underbrush of low expectations.
Katherine gave in to the wonder of the moment, imagining herself in the astronauts' place. What emotions welled up from the depths of their hearts as they regarded their watery blue home from the void of space? How did it feel to be separated by...
They turned their desks into a trigonometric war room, poring over equations scrawling ideas on blackboards, evaluating their work, erasing it, starting over.
For twelve school years, every morning, she had turned left out the front door to get to work. Now the taxi turned right, spiriting her off in the opposite direction.
What I wanted was for them to have a grand, sweeping narrative that they deserved, the kind of American history that belongs to the Wright Brothers and the astronauts, to Alexander Hamilton and Martin Luther King Jr. Not told as a separate history, but as...
