Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Barbara Charline Jordan
American Politician who was both a product, and a leader, of the Civil Rights movement. First African-American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and first Southern black woman ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
"Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love."
"The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport."
"When do any of us ever do enough?"