Benjamin Ward (August 10, 1926 - June 10, 2002) was the first African American New York City Police Commissioner. Ward was one of 11 children and was born in the Weeksville section of Brooklyn, New York.
Read more about Benjamin Ward: Military and Police Experience, Ward's Involvement With The Cover-up At Harlem Mosque #7, Career in New York City and State Government, Life After Retirement, Death
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“Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
“If we ever feel discouraged by the apparent constraints on humanity, about its lack of elbowroom and freedom of action, we should think of the Jews and the Greeks, insignificant, powerless, and tiny in the age of the dinosaur empires, yet providing the growing points for the next stage in human destiny.”
—Barbara Ward (1914–1981)