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...which forced red states to comply with the Brown v. Board of Education decision rendered a decade earlier. Her righteous indignation literally changed the world. Long before the Internet, the mother of the civil rights movement cast her global net from the long walk to freedom of Nelson Mandela and black South Africans to the temerity of Chinese students who, against tanks at Tiananmen Square, dared to challenge unjust government policies. Mrs. Parks, who died last week at age 92, was never driven by any political agenda, and she was never abrasive. She united us all with peace and perseverance...
...says, he can't take the abuse anymore. "It's like being a black man and being called a n_____," he says, kind of loudly. "If someone calls you a n_____ all day long, you start thinking of yourself as a n_____. And the only way to be Nelson Mandela is to be better than your opposition." I am not sure if I'm the opposition or not, but looking around at the crowded bar, I decide not to push...
...which forced red states to comply with the Brown v. Board of Education decision rendered a decade earlier. Her righteous indignation literally changed the world. Long before the Internet, the mother of the civil rights movement cast her global net from the long walk to freedom of Nelson Mandela and black South Africans to the temerity of Chinese students who, against tanks at Tiananmen Square, dared to challenge unjust government policies. Mrs. Parks, who died last week at age 92, was never driven by any political agenda, and she was never abrasive. She united us all with peace and perseverance...
...June, two club members personally presented the $1,000 donation to the Cyril Ross Nursery, an orphanage in Tunapuna, Trinidad that has drawn support from a variety of volunteers, including Danny Glover and Nelson Mandela...
...Nelson Mandela. I suspect he's the greatest living person of the last 100 years. As far as business, Herb Kelleher, [founder of] Southwest [Airlines], is incredible. The only problem is, when I have lunch with him, I end up starting to smoke again, so I'm trying not to see him for a while...