Tag: notable quotes
“Why has it taken 232 years and 115 prior appointments for...
-Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, birminghamtimes.com, Sept. 16.
“The major trauma for me was the beating he took here...
-Patricia Shuttlesworth Massengill, 80, daughter of the legendary Birmingham Civil Rights leader Fred L. Shuttlesworth at Phillips Academy, which renamed its auditorium in honor...
“We are still standing to tell God’s message of love and...
-Rev. Arthur Price, pastor Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, The Birmingham Times, Sept. 14.
“We meet them where they are … we understand them as...
-Dena Dickerson, program director of Offender Alumni Association, which helps previously incarcerated people reenter the world, on her work, The Birmingham Times, Sept. 7.
“This is an urgent situation. This is a crisis situation, and...
-Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin, during “Rally for Reading,” on getting third graders to read on par with their peers or being held back under...
“We don’t have to reinvent the wheel. All we have to...
-Birmingham City Councilor LaTonya Tate, who chairs the council's Public Safety Committee, on a new initiative to train residents as credible messengers; birminghamtimes.com, Aug....
“My boss told me to stop working hard at his dreams...
-Shecovia ‘CoCo’ Moore, a makeup business owner who also holds annual makeup camps for girls ages 7-17; birminghamtimes.com, Aug. 18.
“I’m trying to make sure I hit the intersections within our...
-T. Marie King, programmer of Sidewalk Cinema's Black Lens showcase on highlighting stories of African Americans, birminghamtimes.com, Aug. 16.
“Alabama has chosen instead to thumb its nose at this court...
-Abha Khanna, an attorney in federal court representing one group of minority plaintiffs as judges weighed whether lawmakers complied with a U.S. Supreme Court...
“People don’t want to know how much you know until they...
-Dr. Walter Gonsoulin, superintendent of Jefferson County Schools; birminghamtimes.com, Aug. 9.