Leaving Absalom's Home

Quotable Ramblings

I live for the day when my gender and my race means nothing…that my gifts, skills, character, mental astuteness qualify me to do the job.
Bishop Vashti McKenzie, First Woman Bishop in the AME Church

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
Marian Wright Edelman

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.
Mary McLeod Bethune

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.
Toni Morrison

Justice is what love looks like in public.
Cornel West

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