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The Women Behind the Victorious Montgomery Bus Boycott

    I get it when women say: "I'm so discouraged" "I'm tired" "I'm scared" I get it and I feel this way too sometimes.    What h

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I get it when women say:
“I’m so discouraged”
“I’m tired”
“I’m scared”
I get it and I feel this way too sometimes. 
 
What helps me, is to turn to history. Sometimes looking to the women behind me is where the brightest light is.
 
One of the places and people that I look to are the women behind the Montgomery Bus Boycott. 
 
These women put together a monumental and effective strategy against unrelenting & deadly dangerous racism in the United States south. That’s amazing!
Take a look…..
 
 
 
 
 “It’s up to all of us — Black, white, everyone — no matter how well-meaning we think we might be, to do the honest, uncomfortable work of rooting it out.” ~Michelle Obama
 
“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.”~Angela Davis
 
“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance. ” ~ Bell Hooks
 
‎”In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature’s way of forcing change — breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.” ~ Susan L. Taylor

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