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SLAVERY
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
"Religion has been that one place where you have an imagination that no one can control."
EQUALITY & HUMAN RIGHTS
“No bit of American soil has not been touched by Black blood or Black brilliance.”
EQUALITY & HUMAN RIGHTS
If you want greater freedom for yourself, you must first confront and seek redemption for the freedom you may have denied others.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
All of these things signify an appreciation of what we now have, what we cherish and what we will never surrender or forget: freedom.
EQUALITY & HUMAN RIGHTS
“If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.”
EQUALITY & HUMAN RIGHTS
“Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.” - Maya Angelou
EQUALITY & HUMAN RIGHTS
On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln gave what is arguably the most important speech in American history.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Juneteenth marks the final recognition of a people as human beings, possessed of souls and free will.
TOLERANCE
Interestingly, the two “discriminations”—racial and religious—have historical intersections in this land of the free. They stem from the same root, after all, the root called bigotry.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
The origins of Islam in the U.S. today trace back to one simple concept, one word, three syllables: sla-ve-ry. When Ilhan Omar joined Rashida Tlaib in the House of Representatives at the beginning of January, 2019, wielding a huge copy of the Quran, she became the first Somali-American in Congress. A person of color and a Muslim, Omar fled Somalia as a child and emigrated to America at the age of 13.
