Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech is considered one of the 20th century’s most unforgettable moments, but his path to becoming the face and leader of the civil rights movement in the United States wasn’t always clear. In fact, it was accidental and more a matter of right place, right time.
“The triumph can’t be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.”
Due to her ostracization, her undergraduate studies were isolating, and she didn’t feel particularly welcomed. Yet, despite being accepted into doctoral programs at Brown, Harvard, and the University of Chicago, she chose to continue her doctoral work at MIT. Part of her motivation for this decision was that she “wasn’t going to give people the satisfaction of getting me to walk away.”
Prince’s musical style was unlike anything people were accustomed to hearing; his shows just as awe-inducing. He took inspiration from everywhere and everyone.
“By act of Congress, male officers are gentlemen, but by act of God, we are ladies. We don’t have to be little mini-men and try to be masculine and use obscene language to come across. I can take you and flip you on the floor and put your arms behind your back and you’ll never move again, without your ever knowing that I can do it.” —
In 2008, the then first P.O.C. to be elected as D.A. of San Francisco was singled out in a New York Times article speculating, “She Just Might Be President Someday.” Here we are today.