"We Americans entered a new phase in our history – the era of integration – in 1954." ― Constance Baker Motley Topic(s): History More From Constance Baker Motley "There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society." "The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society." "The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant." More In History "Revolutions are the locomotives of history."― Karl Marx "It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man."― Richard P. Feynman "Bulls don’t read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929."― James Buchan