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March On Selma Quotes By Nat Hentoff

In 1965, as Ralph Gleason has reported, when Martin Luther King's march on Selma, Alabama, was brutally attacked by local and state constabulary, Louis Armstrong, then in Copenhagen, said after watching the carnage on television, "They would beat Jesus if he was black and marched. — Nat Hentoff

March On Selma Quotes By David A. Sousa

Educators are not neuroscientists, but they are members of the only profession in which their job is to change the human brain every day. — David A. Sousa

March On Selma Quotes By Abraham Joshua Heschel

For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

March On Selma Quotes By Warren Buffett

Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that — Warren Buffett

March On Selma Quotes By Bill Rodgers

Anybody can be a runner ... We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport. — Bill Rodgers

March On Selma Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge. — Friedrich Nietzsche

March On Selma Quotes By Junius Williams

I had no way of predicting that Selma to Montgomery was indeed to be the last great civil rights march of the era, and that everything afterward would indeed by 'post-civil rights. — Junius Williams

March On Selma Quotes By Junius Williams

We were still confined to that corner. More and more people joined us, some black and some white. On the second day, we awoke to learn that somebody must have told Martin Luther King that things were getting out of hand in Montgomery, because rumor had it that he left the line of march from Selma to join us in the hood. Despite myself, I was thrilled at the prospect of marching with King. I knew this was SNCC turf, and I was now with SNCC, but how can you not be thrilled with the prospect of being so close to the big man himself? — Junius Williams

March On Selma Quotes By Heidi Haverkamp

Advent is a season that is a borderland. A new year is coming. We're waiting for the coming of Jesus, both for his birth on Christmas Day and for his coming again on the Last Day. — Heidi Haverkamp

March On Selma Quotes By Barack Obama

There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So (my parents) got together (sic) and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home to Selma, Alabama — Barack Obama

March On Selma Quotes By Groucho Marx

Believe me, you have to get up early if you want to get out of bed. — Groucho Marx

March On Selma Quotes By Andre Holland

With 'Selma,' I grew up in Alabama, 45 minutes away from Selma. I have gone to that commemorative march many times with my parents. — Andre Holland

March On Selma Quotes By Douglas Brinkley

There were three Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one. Parks, whose act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, moved to Detroit two years later for safety reasons. — Douglas Brinkley

March On Selma Quotes By Charles B. Rangel

I was proud to march beside some of the most notable Civil Rights activists, such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., from Selma to Montgomery. — Charles B. Rangel

March On Selma Quotes By Dick Durbin

The courage of federal Judge Frank Johnson is well-known.He was the one that gave the legal authority for the right to march from Selma to Montgomery, and he suffered dearly for it. He was ostracized and rejected. His life was threatened as a result of it. — Dick Durbin

March On Selma Quotes By Gib Lewis

There's a lot of uncertainty that's not clear in my mind. — Gib Lewis

March On Selma Quotes By Jeff Greenfield

Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered while registering black voters in Mississippi in 1964, and Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 during the Selma march for voting rights. — Jeff Greenfield

March On Selma Quotes By Tony Abbott

I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage. — Tony Abbott

March On Selma Quotes By Barack Obama

Hope is what led a band of colonists to rise up against an empire; what led the greatest of generations to free a continent and heal a nation; what led young women and young men to sit at lunch counters and brave fire hoses and march through Selma and Montgomery for freedom's cause. Hope is what led me here today
with a father from Kenya, a mother from Kansas; and a story that could only happen in the United States of America. Hope is the bedrock of this nation; the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us; by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is; who have courage to remake the world as it should be. [January 3, 2008] — Barack Obama