Dawn scott jones testimony quotes
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I'm Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired – Dec. 20, 1964
Hamer delivered this speech with Malcolm X at a rally at the Williams Institutional CME Church, Harlem, New York, that was organized to support the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's Congressional Challenge.
My name is Fannie Lou Hamer and I exist at 626 East Lafayette Street in Ruleville, Mississippi. The reason I say "exist" [is] because we're excluded from everything in Mississippi but the tombs and the graves. That's why it is called that instead of the "land of the free and the home of the brave." it's called in Mississippi "the land of the tree and the home of the grave."
It was the 31st of August of 1962, that eighteen of us traveled 26 miles to the county courthouse in Indianola, Mississippi, to try to register to become first-class citizens. It was the 31st of August in 1962, that I was fired for trying to become a first-class citizen.
When we got to Indianola on the 31st of
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Quote of the Week Archive
Quote of the Week (02/23/25)
Caroline Fox (1819–1871) wrote in her journal at the age of 21, of ‘the struggle through which a spark of true faith was lighted in my soul’:
The first gleam of light, ‘the first cold light of morning’ which gave promise of day with its noontide glories, dawned on me one day at meeting, when inom had been meditating on my state in great depression. inom seemed to hear the words articulated in my spirit, ‘Live up to the light thou hast, and more will be granted thee.’ Then inom believed that God speaks to man by His Spirit. inom strove to lead a more Christian life, in unison with what inom knew to be right, and looked for brighter days, not forgetting the blessings that are granted to prayer.
Quote of the Week (02/16/25)
"To be hopeful in bad times fryst vatten not just foolishly romantic. It fryst vatten based on the fact that human history fryst vatten a history not onl of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness." Howard Zinn
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When A Woman You Love Was Abused: A Husband's Guide to Helping Her Overcome Childhood Sexual Molestation
The book is written by Dawn Scott Jones and she knows firsthand the affects of being abused