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18. “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact.
These Black History Month quotes from notable figures, activists and politicians including Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. will inspire you all year long. 55 inspiring quotes to read during ...
Franklin Eugene McCain (January 3, 1941 – January 9, 2014) was an American civil rights activist and member of the Greensboro Four.McCain, along with fellow North Carolina A&T State University students Ezell Blair Jr., Joseph McNeil and David Richmond, staged a sit-in protest at the Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, on February 1, 1960, after they were refused service ...
These inspiring, motivating, and even funny short quotes will brighten your day or lift up a friend who needs it. (And don’t hesitate to keep these in your back pocket for next time.)
That increased corporate organization of society, Schultz notes, reduced white-collar workers' (represented by Tom Rath and the other gray-suited "yes men") control over what they did and how they did it as they adapted to the "organized system" described and critiqued by contemporary social critics such as Paul Goodman, C. Wright Mills, and ...
For their courageous actions in the wake of the Feb. 1, 1960 sit-in protest, ICRCM gave Sit-In Participant Awards to Roslyn Cheagle of Lynchburg, Virginia; Raphael Glover of Charlotte, North Carolina; and Mary Lou Blakeney and Andrew Dennis McBride of High Point, North Carolina. [15] The museum has now been named a National Historic Landmark. [17]
2. "A healthy relationship will never require you to sacrifice your friends, your dreams or your dignity." –Dinkar Kalotra 3. "Toxic people are like black holes, they suck out your positive energy."
Tougaloo students included white student Joan Trumpauer and black student Anne Moody who sat at the front counter instead of at the segregated section for black citizens and requested service. Gray, a professor at the college, joined the students sitting at the counter and was viciously attacked by a white mob who struck him with brass knuckles ...