"You cannot allow yourself to think that activism to change things for the better isn't worth doing, even if it's difficult."—Eighty-four year-old Monnie Callen, social worker, retired member of 1199SEIU, and civil rights advocate who attended Dr. King's 1963 March in Washington DC, reflecting on what she's "learned about activism, both from Dr. King, and my family and my life's work."
[H/T to @NatashaChart.]
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