Howard Zinn Quote
It appeared March 9, 1960, dramatically, on a full page of the Constitution under a huge headline, AN APPEAL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, and it created a sensation: We … have joined our hearts, minds, and bodies in the cause of gaining those rights which are inherently ours as members of the human race and as citizens of the United States.… We do not intend to wait placidly for those rights which are already legally and morally ours to be meted out to us one at a time.… We want to state clearly and unequivocally that we cannot tolerate, in a nation professing democracy and among people professing Christianity, the discriminatory conditions under which the Negro is living today in Atlanta, Georgia.
It appeared March 9, 1960, dramatically, on a full page of the Constitution under a huge headline, AN APPEAL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, and it created a sensation: We … have joined our hearts, minds, and bodies in the cause of gaining those rights which are inherently ours as members of the human race and as citizens of the United States.… We do not intend to wait placidly for those rights which are already legally and morally ours to be meted out to us one at a time.… We want to state clearly and unequivocally that we cannot tolerate, in a nation professing democracy and among people professing Christianity, the discriminatory conditions under which the Negro is living today in Atlanta, Georgia.
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