Quotes of the Day
Tuesday, Sep. 07, 2010
Even at such a young age, he had the courage to risk his own safety, to defy a governor and a mob and to walk proudly into that school.
- PRESIDENT OBAMA,
- paying tribute to Jefferson Thomas, who was among the nine black students who fought segregationist mobs 53 years ago to integrate a Southern high school; Thomas died of pancreatic cancer on Sunday
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