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Dr. John Hope Franklin, dynamic professor of history at the Uni-
versity of Chicago, calling for a recommitment to the U. S. Constitu-
tion's ideals of equality and justice: "We need a new American Revolu-
tion to create a new ideology of comradeship, so that every man can
face tomorrow unemcumbered by the burden of the past and the
prejudice of the present."
Lowell W. Perry, enterprising chairman of the Equal Employment Op-
portunity Commission in Washington, D. C., citing alarming statistics
about the state of Black business in America: "Black Americans con-
stitute 11 percent of the U.S. population. But if you were to lump all
the Black businesses in this country together and total their income,
they rank perhaps number 250 on Fortune magazine's 500 top busi-
nesses list."
Maceo Cleaver, 6-year-old son of Eldridge and Kathleen Cleaver, talk-
ing to his father via phone : "Daddy, you know what's wrong with this
society? Money. If I were running things everybody could get whatever
they needed from a big barn."
Lola Falana, sultry singer-dancer-actress, explaining her overpowering
sexual magnetism: "My entire being is sexual-the energy forces
around me when I come into the room, even my scent. I carry a sense of
freedom about me that turns men on. Man-pleasing is a very intelligent
thing to learn how to do."
Rep. Barbara Jordan (D., Tex.), recalling her philosophy of life during
her pre-college days : "I am big and fat and Black and ugly and I'll
never have a man problem. I'll never get to college unless my father
pays for it. So I will do exactly what he tells me to until I am 21 years
old and then I'll do what I damn well please."
Muhammad Ali, the quotable heavyweight boxing champion of the
world, revealing what he'd do if someone in the street dared to pick a
fight with him: "I'd run 'cause anybody'd pick a fight with me gotta be
crazy."
Barbara Jordan    Lowell Perry     Lola Falana    J. H. Franklin
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