I had - and have - huge respect for John Crow.Paul MartinTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“I had - and have - huge respect for John Crow.
“Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance.”Paul Martin
“We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.”Al SharptonCrow
“During the Jim Crow era, poll taxes and literacy tests kept the African-Americans from polls. But today, felon disenfranchisement laws accomplished what poll taxes and literacy tests ultimately could not, because those laws were struck down. But felony disenfranchisement laws had been allowed to stand.”Michelle AlexanderCrow
“As a teenager growing up during Jim Crow, all I wanted to do was leave Mississippi. But I came back and raised my own family here.”
“Most Canadians previously had no idea what went on in the residential schools. You tell Canadians the last one closed in 1996, they are appalled. So now that Canadians are aware of residential schools, you'd think there would be a huge impetus for progress. It hasn't, and that's amazing.”Paul MartinAmazing
“The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.”Paul MartinEquality
“I went from an unemployed actor's life to doing stand-up comedy, and that was fortuitous. It's not the usual way the crow flies, going from being in a TV sketch show to playing one of Shakespeare's finest characters, but, hey, that's the way it has happened.”Catherine TateCrow
“It is a very beautiful story, 'The Crow.' It is a very tragic story with huge emotional themes.”Luke EvansCrow
“The strength of my mother is something I didn't pay attention to for so long. Here she was, this single mom, who was part of the Great Migration, who was part of a Jim Crow south, who said, 'I'm getting my kids out of here. I'm creating opportunities for these young people by any means necessary.'”Jacqueline WoodsonCrow