Left us in 2005.
Richard Pryor
“I went to Zimbabwe...I know how white people feel in America now, relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!”
James Forman, founding member of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee.
"A strong people's movement was in progress, the people were feeling their own strength grow. I knew how much harm could be done by interjecting the Messiah complex -- people would feel that only a particular individual could save them and would not move on their own to fight racism and exploitation."
Shirley Chisholm, first black woman to make a serious bid to be President of the United States.
“As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers -- a great pity, on both counts.”
Arthur Miller, playwright.
“I am not sure what "The Crucible" is telling people now, but I know that its paranoid center is still pumping out the same darkly attractive warning that it did in the fifties.”
Ossie Davis, actor.
“And we will know him then for what he was and is. A prince. Our own black shining prince who didn't hesitate to die because he loved us so.”- Eulogy to Malcom X
Oscar Brown Jr., singer, writer, composer, activist.
“I'm trying to calculate my damages
From a lifetime of manmade savages
Bad food canisters
Fast food managers
And school principals.”
Kenneth Clark, psychologist.
"A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike."
Ibrahim Ferrer, Buena Vista Social Club.
“When I was younger I thought I was going to travel the world with my music. The only chance I got was when I came to Europe in 1962. Then there was the missile crisis. I played in Paris and Eastern Europe with Pacho Alonso’s orchestra and then I was stuck in Europe. I had to stay until everything settled down again before I could go home. Then nothing happened for thirty-five years."
Little Milton, blues singer.
“Age ain’t nothin’ but a number.”
Rosa Parks, mother of the civil rights movement.
" When he saw me still sitting, he asked if I was going to stand up and I said, 'No, I'm not'. And he said, 'Well, if you don't stand up, I'm going to have to call the police and have you arrested.' I said, 'You may do that.' "
Corky Gonzalez, one of the founders of the Chicano Movement.
"Would it not be more noble to portray our great country as a humanitarian nation with the honest intentions of aiding and advising the weak rather than to be recognized as a military power and hostile enforcer of our political aims?"
“I went to Zimbabwe...I know how white people feel in America now, relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!”
James Forman, founding member of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee.
"A strong people's movement was in progress, the people were feeling their own strength grow. I knew how much harm could be done by interjecting the Messiah complex -- people would feel that only a particular individual could save them and would not move on their own to fight racism and exploitation."
Shirley Chisholm, first black woman to make a serious bid to be President of the United States.
“As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers -- a great pity, on both counts.”
Arthur Miller, playwright.
“I am not sure what "The Crucible" is telling people now, but I know that its paranoid center is still pumping out the same darkly attractive warning that it did in the fifties.”
Ossie Davis, actor.
“And we will know him then for what he was and is. A prince. Our own black shining prince who didn't hesitate to die because he loved us so.”- Eulogy to Malcom X
Oscar Brown Jr., singer, writer, composer, activist.
“I'm trying to calculate my damages
From a lifetime of manmade savages
Bad food canisters
Fast food managers
And school principals.”
Kenneth Clark, psychologist.
"A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike."
Ibrahim Ferrer, Buena Vista Social Club.
“When I was younger I thought I was going to travel the world with my music. The only chance I got was when I came to Europe in 1962. Then there was the missile crisis. I played in Paris and Eastern Europe with Pacho Alonso’s orchestra and then I was stuck in Europe. I had to stay until everything settled down again before I could go home. Then nothing happened for thirty-five years."
Little Milton, blues singer.
“Age ain’t nothin’ but a number.”
Rosa Parks, mother of the civil rights movement.
" When he saw me still sitting, he asked if I was going to stand up and I said, 'No, I'm not'. And he said, 'Well, if you don't stand up, I'm going to have to call the police and have you arrested.' I said, 'You may do that.' "
Corky Gonzalez, one of the founders of the Chicano Movement.
"Would it not be more noble to portray our great country as a humanitarian nation with the honest intentions of aiding and advising the weak rather than to be recognized as a military power and hostile enforcer of our political aims?"
posted by Fred Klonsky at 1/01/2006
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