Sammie Abbott Quotes
I'm a perpetually mad person. I hate injustice. As far as I'm concerned, I'm living to fight injustice. I'm living to fight the goddamned thing. I'm too mad to sleep.
The city he represented had, under his leadership, declared itself a nuclear-free zone, protested apartheid in front of the South African embassy in Washington, fought for rent-control during a period of soaring rents, and became known as "the Berkeley of the East":
Sammie Abbott, 1908-1990, Mayor, Takoma Park, MD (Democrat), Quoted in The Washington Post, January 6, 1991
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He was killed In the Spanish Civil War.
He was criticizing the other major Black leader of the time, Booker T. Washington. See {625803} for the kind of position that angered Du Bois.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
He was warning that the corporations and monopolies were taking advantage of the poor who, if there is not some balance of redress and justice will resort to violence such as the man who just short him. He gave the speech still bleeding with the bullet lodged in his body. He refused to go to a hospital or get medical care until he had finished his speech. See {633076}.
Takoma Park is a city in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It is a suburb of Washington, and part of the Washington metropolitan area. Founded in 1883 and incorporated in 1890, Takoma Park, informally called "Azalea City", is a Tree City USA and a nuclear-free zone. A planned commuter suburb, it is situated along the Metropolitan Branch of the historic Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, just northeast of Washington, and it shares a border and history with the adjacent D.C. neighborhood of Takoma. It is governed by an elected mayor and six elected councilmembers, who form the city council, and an appointed city manager, under a council-manager style of government. The city's population was 16,715 at the 2010 national census.
