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Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.
— James L. Farmer, Jr.
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James L. Farmer, Jr.
politician, human rights defender, university teacher, activism
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1920 – 1999
James Leonard Farmer Jr. was an American civil rights activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement "who pushed for nonviolent protest to dismantle segregation, and served alongside Martin Luther King Jr." In 1942 he was a co-founder of what became known as CORE, or the Congress of Racial Equality. He was the initiator and organizer of the first Freedom Ride in 1961, which eventually led to the desegregation of interstate transportation in the United States.
All Quotes by James L. Farmer, Jr.
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Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.
— James L. Farmer, Jr.
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Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.
— James L. Farmer, Jr.
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Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.
— James L. Farmer, Jr.