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Steve Branz's avatar

If many in the GOP had their way, the contents of your letter could not be taught in our public schools and universities. A very sad statement to have to make over 150 years since the 14th and 15th Amendments were incorporated into our Constitution. -- This is not CRT. This is OUR shared history.

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FERN MCBRIDE (NYC)'s avatar

It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others. … One ever feels his twoness — an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

—W.E.B. Du Bois, sociologist, historian, activist, 1897

The chasm between the principles upon which this Government was founded … and those which are daily practiced under the protection of the flag, yawns so wide and deep.

—Mary Church Terrell, clubwoman, businesswoman, activist, 1906

We will kneel in, we will sit in until we can eat in any corner in the United States. We will walk until … we can take our children to any school in the United States. And we will … lie in until every Negro in America can vote.

—Daisy Bates, civil rights activist, president of Arkansas NAACP, 1963

2020

Every police killing of an un-armed black man, woman or child damages our country. ... These killings are a tragedy for families and communities. But they are also a stain on our nation's very soul.

—Sherrilyn Ifill, president, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund

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