Prominent African-American singer, Civil Rights icon

In 1939 the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) refused to allow her to sing in their Constitution Hall in Washington, DC. In part because of the public attention brought by this incident, Marian Anderson became one of the best-known African American women of the 20th century.

” No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.”

Racism.

Sexism.

Classism.

Homophobia.

Xenophobia.

Transphobia.

The systems of oppression that keep people down utilize vast resources.  Just think…how much more could we achieve if those resources were instead used to raise humanity up.