John Humphrey Plummer

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    This is my commandment, that ye love one another.
    Bible: New Testament Jesus, in John 15:12.

    Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it against all odds; and then produced it, sold it, and profited from it.
    —Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)

    We have what I would call educational genocide. I’m concerned about learning totally, but I’m immersed in the disastrous record of how many black kids are going into science. They are very few and far between. I’ve said that when I see more black students in the laboratories than I see on the football field, I’ll be happy.
    —Jewel Plummer Cobb (b. 1924)