Here is to our true Progressives that fought for Civil Rights their whole life.

[sheshe2]

They never stopped.

John Lewis. Dolores Huerta.

You don't need the images. You know the story. They were treated with the utmost disrespect.



Human Rights Principles. Human rights are universal and inalienable; indivisible; interdependent and interrelated. They are universal because everyone is born with and possesses the same rights, regardless of where they live, their gender or race, or their religious, cultural or ethnic background.

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.”

https://www.unfpa.org/resources/human-rights-principles

[guillaumeb]

1. Were treated, and continue to be treated,

with disrespect.

Recommended.

[sheshe2]

2. Yes.

Some tried to threaten and humiliate them. Didn't work, they had been through far worse and they proved they are far superior to the little people that raged at them. They showed their true colors as John and Delores stood tall and proud.

[betsuni]

3. I had forgotten until I read her book that Hillary's speech was rated 35 in the Top 100 Speeches

of the 20th Century. Also, that when she worked for the Children's Defense Fund after law school she was sent to South Carolina to gather evidence for a lawsuit to end the incarceration of teens in jails with adults and to Alabama to expose segregated schools trying to evade integration.

She was also sent to a community to find out why so many families kept their children out of school and it was because the schools couldn't accommodate those with disabilities. It was a clarifying moment for her, she said, and I thought this was interesting:

"As a campus liberal in the foment of the sixties, I took 'consciousness raising' seriously. But talking about fairness alone wouldn't get a ramp built for this girl's wheelchair at the local public school. Raising public awareness would be necessary but not sufficient for changing school policies and hiring and training new staff to give students with disabilities an equal education. Instead of waiting for a revolution, the kind of change this girl needed was more likely to look like the sociologist Max Weber's description of politics: 'a strong and slow boring of hard boards.'

"We wrote a report. We built a coalition of like-minded organizations. And we went to Washington to argue our case. It took until 1975, but the Children's Defense Fund's work eventually helped convince Congress to pass the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, requiring all public schools to make accommodations for students with disabilities. This kind of work isn't glamorous. But my experience with CDF convinced me that this is how you make real change in America, step by step, year by year, sometimes even door by door."

[sheshe2]

8. The disabilities act for children was huge, betsuni.

Children denied reaching their potential because they had no access to the classroom.

Fact is in many ways it is still an issue for all handicapped. With my mom we now have to travel to an appointment with a wheel chair and a 25 pound oxygen tank and two pocketbooks. The doors at the medical center does not have an automatic door opener. I struggle to get the door open and get her in safely. Last time I took her for blood work a guy was sitting in a huge pick up truck right outside the door and the ass watched and could not bother to get off his ass to help.

Sigh.

[spicysista]

4. Great post, sheshe2!

They've never stopped and their legacies continue to inspire, worldwide. Being of service and doing all the good that you can is a beautiful way of being.

[grantcart]

11. +1

[VOX]

5. Fantastic post. Thank you!

These are the REAL Americans, who had to scratch and claw for their own dignity and right to be equal citizens. And the fight never stops.

[sheshe2]

25. Well said, VOX.

Thank you.

[George II]

6. We need to remember this each and every day.

[sheshe2]

14. Yep.

Hillary’s campaign held a press call on April 4 that highlighted Bernie’s spotty record on immigration. Rep. Luis Gutiérrez spoke passionately and forcefully about Bernie’s surrogates attacking pro-Hillary civil rights heroes: “Senator Sanders, tell your surrogates to stop the attacks on icons of the Civil Rights movement like Dolores Huerta and John Lewis.”


Gutiérrez was audibly emotional while discussing Huerta, who cofounded the United Farm Workers labor union with legendary Chicano activist Cesar Chavez. Huerta has been under attack from Bernie supporters since February for saying she was told “English only” at a Sanders rally in Nevada and for her open support of Hillary.

In March, actress Rosario Dawson, who played Huerta in a 2014 biopic, wrote a scathing open letter to Huerta in the Huffington Post in which she called the celebrated civil rights figure “an instrument of the establishment.”

It’s an accusation that incensed Latinos everywhere.

Actress Susan Sarandon, another Bernie surrogate, has also attacked Huerta. Here’s a cringe-worthy video of Sarandon getting in Huerta’s face to lecture her on Hillary’s immigration record.

https://bluenationreview.com/latino-hillary-supporters-defend-huerta-from-bernie-surrogate-attacks/

[DURHAM D]

15. So, is Cory Booker still dating Rosario?

If so he is near the bottom of my favs.

[sheshe2]

17. No clue.

I like him, yet not the top of my list.

[dlk]

7. Think of All the Good that Would Have Happened if Hillary Had Been Permitted to be President

Only in the most corrupt of countries could the person with the most votes, by millions, lose.

[sheshe2]

10. Don't get me started, dlk.

I will cry.

[dlk]

21. I Am Right There Wirh You!

[myohmy2]

9. +1

...

[LuvLoogie]

12. Shoulder to shoulder forward...

no matter what.

[sheshe2]

13. That is the spirit!

Forward.

[DURHAM D]

16. Programming note - Hillary will be on Fareed Zakaria

tomorrow morning.

[sheshe2]

18. Time and CNN or MSNBC?

I do mom care. Hard for me to watch.

[Irishxs]

19. I am such a fan of John Lewis' "just get in the way" philosophy. !!!!

Don’t need violence, just get in the way

[sheshe2]

20. Love him.

JOHN LEWIS - GET IN THE WAY

The Right to Vote
Clip | 1m 59s

After years of struggle to secure the right to vote for all, Lewis reminds voters today that “the vote is the most powerful tool that we have in a democracy.”

https://www.pbs.org/video/john-lewis-get-way-right-vote/?upnextautoplay=true

vids at the link.

Welcome to DU Irishxs

[dlk]

22. Lewis is Absolutely Right-There's a Reason for so Much Republican Emphasis on Voter Suppression

[panader0]

23. K and R

[DFW]

24. I'd include my dad's cousin in there

Now 91, he recently went down to Alabama to meet with his fellow survivors of the Selma march. He was a civil rights lawyer for most of his professional life.