"Take this Hammer"

- James Baldwin [1924-1987]

A man who lifted 5000 pounds when no current contemporary can lift a pinky finger.

"I'm proud to be maladjusted"

formative

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. It may be necessary to encounter defeats to know who you are."
- Maya Angelou

make the best of your situation

"Bloom where you're planted."
- U.S. Civil Rights adage

like many

"There were very few things he did without calculation."
- On LBJ

"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies."
- Matin Luther King, Jr.

"When you live in fear you don't exist."
- John Lewis

Negro Soldier

This WWII film was designed to compel blacks to fight the Nazis. More than twenty years later U.S. minorities were finally granted the right to vote in 1965.