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This quote is from Henry James on being graceful:

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

The great authors say the usual things in unusual ways.

This one is from Samuel Johnson on information:

Information is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,
or we know where we can find information upon it.

The former still has a high value, but given the ease of the latter, the value of knowing information is rapidly changing.

This one is from Henri-Frédéric Amiel on clarity and decision making:

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.

Words to remember!

Today, we would like to present a selection from Part III of our reading on Rosa Parks:

In 1944, athletic star Jackie Robinson took a similar stand in a confrontation with an Army officer in Fort Hood, Texas, refusing to move to the back of a bus. He was brought before a court-martial, which acquitted him. The NAACP had accepted and litigated other cases before, such as that of Irene Morgan ten years earlier, which resulted in a victory in the U.S. Supreme Court on Commerce Clause grounds. That victory, however, overturned state segregation laws only insofar as they applied to travel in interstate commerce, such as interstate bus travel. Black activists had begun to build a case around the arrest of a 15-year-old girl, Claudette Colvin, a student at Booker T. Washington High School in Montgomery. On March 2, 1955, Colvin was handcuffed, arrested and forcibly removed from a public bus when she refused to give up her seat to a white man. She screamed that her constitutional rights were being violated. At the time, Colvin was active in the NAACP's Youth Council, a group to which Rosa Parks served as Advisor.

These were some of the events leading up to Rosa Parks and her refusal to give up her bus seat. If you would like to read more, please click the link above to continue reading.

This one is from Fats Domino on degrees:

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

And things have become worse since then.