BS: Today's quote for Black History month

Subject: Today's quote for Black History month
From: Marymac90
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 12:27 PM

"Look at me! Look at my arm!

I have ploughed and planted. And ain't I a woman?

I could work as much and eat as much as a man-

when I could get it-and bear the lash as well-

and ain't I a woman?"

Sojourner Truth

Subject: RE: BS: Today's quote for Black History month
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 01:33 PM

Amen to that, Marymac and thank you for noting this important month.

NPR had a fantastic piece on, yesterday, about a American of African descent man in Boston who was assaulted in 1976 with a flagpole, flag dragging from it, by some youths. The piece was mostly about him and the photographer who captured the moment and won a Pulitzer. The series is called:

The Unsung of Civil Rights -- In part one of a Black History Month series titled "The Unsung of Civil Rights" NPR's Phillip Martin features Ted Landsmark of Boston. You can listen to it here at http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDate=2%2F1%2F2000&PrgID=3

Thanks, again, Marymac,

katlaughing

Subject: RE: BS: Today's quote for Black History month
From: northfolk/al cholger
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 05:23 PM

"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without the thunder and the lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its mighty waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never hasand it never will."

Frederick Douglas 1857

Subject: RE: BS: Today's quote for Black History month
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 05:25 PM

Ain't that the truth Northfolk?

Rick

Subject: RE: BS: Today's quote for Black History month
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 07:08 PM

Tomorrow, on NPR's Talk of the Nation program, they will be running awhoel hour of Unsung of the Civil Rights movement.