I don’t know if this would be better if it was just lines… also I hope my handwriting is okay if its hard to read just tell me and I’ll work on the lettering.
The Problem We All Live With - by Norman Rockwell 1964
Painting of Ruby Bridges being escorted by U.S. Marshalls to her first day of unsegregated schooling in New Orleans, LA.
“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more.
- Alexandre Dumas (via acorda)
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It is not easy … to wait. Waiting is what the hunter does, and the poet and the slugger. He waits for the moment of inevitability and fate and then he swings, or shoots, or takes up the pen to put down a line. They don’t teach us to wait in America; they teach us to grab. But waiting is what we do when we are looking for something beautiful, when we are looking for an end to our sorrow. Nothing is infinite in life, not even sorrow.
- Cary Tennis (via venebelle)
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you thought I didn’t really notice. But I did. I wanted to high-five you.
Yesterday I had a pair of brothers in my store. One was maybe between 15-17. He was a wrestler at the local high…
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