"Escogiste servir a tu pueblo de un modo nada aceptable en tu tiempo,Eres vista como algo fuera de lo comun, pero aun necesaria,Porque pedras ser lo que fueiste hasta ese entonces para la sociedad;"(You choose to serve your people in a way not…

“It was my moral obligation [document my experiences]. God gave me that ink to last." ~Anthony Acavedo, Oral History Interview with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, October 13, 2010 Born in San Bernardino, California in 1924, Anthony…

" You give them what they need to get the job done, building confidence and trust with them, and they with you. And that creates perpetual optimism – it's a force multiplier, meaning it makes your force more powerful than the design of the…

"You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea." ~Medgar Evers or Myrlie Evers, widow of Medgar Evers, 1963 Born into a working-class Black family in Decatur, Mississippi, Medgar Evers attended segregated schools and witnessed a…

"Tout le sang qui coule rouge."~Eugene Bullard's pilot's motto, meaning "All Blood is Red," 1914-1917 Eugene Bullard was born in Columbus, Georgia, on October 9, 1895. His parents, William and Josephine, had formerly been enslaved. At the age of 11,…

"Lying in woods all day. Nothing new. Turned out at Midnight an attack being made. Moved out but were not called upon. Weather fine and warm."~Diary entry, Wednesday, June 22, 1864 Sergeant Major Christian A. Fleetwood of the U.S. Colored Infantry…