“ Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. ”
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
Already a congressman, to a mentor I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.
Negro poverty is not white poverty. Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences - radiating painful roots into the community and into the family, and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice, and present prejudice.
