Victoria Gray Adams famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I've never been afraid to step out and to reach out and to move out in order to make things happen.
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If I was an exceptional human being in Detroit, then I saw no reason why I couldn't be an exceptional human being in Mississippi. In Hattiesburg.
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If you can't find anybody else, then I'll go. So, they couldn't find anybody else. So, I went.
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As far as I am concerned, freedom summer never really ended.
-- Victoria Gray Adams
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You may feel depressed, but it can't be so depressing that you can't move. No, I would say that people create in moments when they are elated about expressing their depression!
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In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.
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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
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In order to be artists we need to be in our studios, in our private rooms... in our private personal space... that sacred protected space, so we can make our work. That's the only work that's worth making, right? That's the place where we can be free enough and vulnerable enough to share what we have to share.
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Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer.
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Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.
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Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.
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Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.
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We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.
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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
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