To Inspire You

THE WALLS between old allies on either side of the Atlantic CANNOT STAND. THE WALLS between the countries with the most and those with the least CANNOT STAND. THE WALLS between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew CANNOT STAND. THESE NOW ARE THE WALLS WE MUST TEAR DOWN.

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Today In History

• In 1881 - Payton Johnson patents swinging chair
  
• In 1950 - Signing with the Atlantic City Seagulls, Arthur Dorrington becomes first black to play in organized hockey
  
• In 1979 - Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Professor Arthur Lewis of Princeton. First black cited in a category other than peace