A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day.

Barbara W. Tuchman
A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he...
A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he...
A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he...
A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he...
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A quote that has become a memory of the struggles of the civil rights movement to gain equality for African Americans in America. The author of this quote, John Lewis, was an elected official for Atlanta's district 5, and was part of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the 1960s. He is best known as one of the co-captains of the Selma to Montgomery marches.

Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14Th Century

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