November 14, 2023
QUOTE
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Great men cultivate love…only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
Character is power.
You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.
--All from Booker T. Washington
BIRTHDAYS
1765 – Robert Fulton, Engineer, early steamboat pioneer
1904 – Dick Powell, Actor, singer, director, and producer
1916 – Sherwood Schwartz, Screenwriter and producer
1964 – Patrick Warburton, Actor and comedian
IN MEMORY
1915 – Booker T. Washington, Educator, essayist and historian
1944 – Trafford Leigh-Mallory, English air marshal
1995 – Jack Finney, Author and screenwriter
2016 – Gwen Ifill, Television journalist
IN ON THIS DAY
1680 – German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope
1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.
1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
1922 – The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
1957 – The “Apalachin Meeting” in rural Tioga County in upstate New York is raided by law enforcement; many high-level Mafia figures are arrested while trying to flee.
1970 – Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including almost all of the Marshall University football team.