Septima Poinsette Clark
Septima Poinsette Clark
Septima Poinsette Clarkwas an American educator and civil rights activist. Clark developed the literacy and citizenship workshops that played an important role in the drive for voting rights and civil rights for African Americans in the American Civil Rights Movement. Septima Clark's work was commonly under appreciated by Southern male activists. She became known as the "Queen mother" or "Grandmother" of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Martin Luther King, Jr. commonly referred to Clark as "The Mother...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth3 May 1898
CountryUnited States of America
The air has finally gotten to the place that we can breathe it together.
What we are working for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for scores of brave southerners who are leading the fight for justice and better race relations in these crucial days
I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion- keep you from eating, which I liked to do.
My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have avote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling.
I just tried to create a little chaos. Chaos is a good thing. God created the whole world out of it. Change is what comes of it.
I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.