Directions: Write the letter of the famous American next to the quotation she or he said.
Quotations |
Famous Americans |
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| 1. "If we cannot end our differences now, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity." | a.) Muhammed Ali | |
| 2.) "We must learn together as brothers or perish together as fools." | b.) Frederick Douglass | |
| 3.) "I ran and ran every day and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened." | c.) John F. Kennedy | |
| 4.) "The fight must go on. The cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one or even a hundred defeats." | d.) Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
| 5.) "I have felt for a long time that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so." | e.) Abraham Lincoln | |
| 6.) "I never thought about losing, but now that's happened, the only thing is to do it right. We all have to take defeats in life." | f.) Rosa Parks | |
| 7.) "Every tone (of the 'Song of the Slaves') was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains." | g.) Wilma Rudolph | |
| 8.) "When I found I had crossed the line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such glory over everything." | h.) Soujourner Truth | |
| 9.) "The man says that women need to be helped into carriages and lifted over ditches and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages or over mud puddles or gives me any best place and aren't I a woman?" | i.) Harriet Tubman | |
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Created by the Fourth and Fifth Grade Students in the Boston Affinity Group