"It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial."

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Source : "Black History Is American History" by Rep. Yvette D. Clarke, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2010.

Yvette Clarke

#August Quotes #Rights Quotes #Memorial Quotes

“Society, like nature, is one body, really.”
“People have maybe, sometimes, said that I can, occasionally, be a teeny bit edgy and judgmental.”

Source : "Why I’m Scared to Say Cougar Town Is the Best Job Ever" by Christa Miller, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2012.
“I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.”
“Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.”
“'I don't know' is my favorite position.”
“Unless you've ever been a law enforcement officer or a prosecutor handling a difficult homicide case, you cannot know what it's like to launch the type of investigation and come to the right conclusion.”
“I live for now, not for what happens after I die. I'm going to hell, not heaven. The devil has all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns.”
“Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.”

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