Roberta Martin - Death

Death

Well known in the African-American community, her funeral in Chicago in 1969 attracted over 50,000 mourners

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Famous quotes containing the word death:

    “It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all.”
    —Indian proverb, quoted in Sébastien-roch Nicolas de Chamfort, Maxims and Considerations, vol. 1, no. 155 (1796, trans. 1926)

    “...there is death in the pot!”
    —Bible: Hebrew, 2 Kings 4:40.

    “All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.”
    —Germaine Greer (b. 1939)