Shirley Chisholm. Thurgood Marshall. Barack Obama.
Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free. Shirley Chisholm, first Black woman to be elected to U.S. Congress, 1968, and to run for U.S. president, 1972.
Racism separates, but it never liberates. Hatred generates fear, and fear once given a foothold binds, consumes and imprisons. Nothing is gained from prejudice. No one benefits from racism. Justice Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court, .
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States of America, 2009-2017.
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children” First Nations proverb.
