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:

    “Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others’ death and dying the others’ life.”
    —Heraclitus (c. 535–475 B.C.)

    “For who shall defile the temples of the ancient gods, a cruel and violent death shall be his fate, and never shall his soul find rest unto eternity. Such is the curse of Amon-Ra, king of all the gods.”
    —Griffin Jay, Maxwell Shane (1905–1983)

    “For God was as large as a sunlamp and laughed his heat at us and therefore we did not cringe at the death hole.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)