“Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.”
Source : Giovanni Ruffini (1858). “Doctor Antonio. A tale. By the author of Lorenzo Benoni [i.e. Giovanni Domenico Ruffini].”, p.144
“The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.”
“I was a commodity, like a hot dog. It was like hot dogs and Betty Hutton.”
Bayard Rustin
Activist
Diane Nash
Human rights activist
Dorothy Height
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Fannie Lou Hamer
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Ida B. Wells
Journalist
Julian Bond
American Politician
Septima Poinsette Clark
Educator
Stokely Carmichael
Activist
Van Jones
Civil Rights Advocate