A lot of people are gone. You lose that witness, that personal testimony. |
As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge. |
As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas. |
Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else. |
Both Sides with Jesse Jackson |
He always had such a fierce determination to fight segregation in every possible way. |
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. |
I said, 'Read these books and you don't have to be here. |
I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work. |
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. |
If I could, I'd be persuaded. |
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. |
It means something for us to know that history and get some feel for who the people were, |
It's a cliche to say she was the mother of the civil rights movement, but she was. |
It's an uphill battle, |