Let's win it for THEM....

[Ken Burch]

And for all those we don't have photos of.
And for ourselves.
And for our children.

Yes, we can.

Yes, WE MUST!!!!!!

[uppityperson]

1. This is the first time I've really felt we are carrying on Bobby Kennedy's future

Great pictures, thank you.

[Ken Burch]

2. You're welcome. Feel free to add more, anyone who wants to.

pictures of those who fell on the path to a better world is the basic idea.

[volstork]

33. YES!

I wholeheartedly agree. We are 40 years late, but carrying on, nonetheless.

[roguevalley]

38. whoa, what a strange trip that all was the first time. for them, now.

[Arugula Latte]

3. I'd like to add ... Paul Wellstone

[Ken Burch]

7. Thanks. It's a welcome addition.

n/t.

[Deep13]

16. Oh! Well who's that guy in the tweed coat in the OP then?

I thought it was Welstone, but I wasn't sure. Now I'm thinking it was someone else.

[Ken Burch]

18. Harvey Milk, the first openly gay member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors(the city council)

He was murdered, along with progressive mayor George Moscone, by a crazed former supervisor (whose name I won't dignify by mentioning),
at San Francisco City Hall in 1978.

[Arugula Latte]

19. I did a double take at first because I had the same thought, but then I recognized Harvey.

(I grew up in the Bay Area and remember the Moscone/Milk shootings all too well.) I think that's what triggered my thought for Paul Wellstone. Plus ... Damn! I wish he could be here to watch President Obama get sworn into office.

[Sophree]

35. Sniff

Thanks for adding Sen. Wellstone. Gosh, I hadn't thought about him in a while, and it brought back memories of that sad, sad day.

We (I) must never forget. We must win it for all of these great men and women, and girls, who never got a chance to realize their potential, whose lives were cut short; these casualties of War.

:cry:

[myrna minx]

39. It was just the 6th anniversary of his death.

:cry: I'm still not done grieving. Thanks for adding him.

[FreeState]

4. That picture of Harvey Milk brings tears to my eyes

As a gay Californian who is admittedly terrified of Prop 8 - just the sight of someone who was so out spoken for the cause of equality makes me weep. I wish we had every one in these pictures back so they could help. But alas we must do it our selves.

We must stop 8 and we must elect Obama - now is the time...

“Hope will never be silent” - Harvey Milk

[SprintSpeed]

5. amen!

[Deep13]

6. *delete* phot didn't fucking work

[Ken Burch]

9. Your link didn't work, but I found a picture of her.

Lucy Burns, suffragist.

[Deep13]

11. Anyway, that's Lucy Burns...

...one of several suffgragists who were jailed and tortured in Nov. 1917 for picketting in front of the White House for the right to vote. The charge was obstructing the sidewalk.

[H2O Man]

8. Nominated!

Great OP!

[BrklynLiberal]

10. Made me think of this.....

Rosa sat, so Martin could walk…
Martin walked, so Obama could run…
Obama is running, so our children can FLY!

[Rainbowreflect]

30. That is beautiful.

[Voice for Peace]

12. "Sons of" comes to mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1HQdjt85wU

Some built the roads
Some wrote the poems
Some went to war
Some never came home

[Ken Burch]

17. I think also of these lyrics by Phil Ochs:

Many's the hour I've lain by my window
And thought of the people who carried the burden
Who marched in the strange fields in search of an answe
And ended their journeys an unwilling hero


Here's a song to those who are gone with never a reason why
And a toast of the wine at the end of the line
And a toll of the bell for the next one to die

Back in the coal fields of old harlan county
Some talked of the union, some talked of good wages
And they lined them up in the dark of the forests
And shot them down without asking no questions

Here's a song to those who are gone with never a reason why
And a toast of the wine to the end of the line
And a toll of the bell for the next one to die

And over the ocean, to the red spanish soil
Came the lincoln brigade with their dreams
But they fell in the fire of germany's bombing
And they fell 'cause no one would hear their sad warning

Here's a song to those who are gone with never a reason why
And a toast of the wine at the end of the line
And a toll of the bell for the next one to die

In old alabama, in old mississippi
Two states of the union so often found guilty
They came on the busses, they came on the marches
And they lay in the jails or they fell by the highway

Here's a song to those who are gone with never a reason why
And a toast of the wine at the end of the line
And a toll of the bell for the next one to die

The state it was texas, the town it was dallas
In the flash of a rifle a life was soon over
And nobody thought of the past million murders
And the long list of irony(? ) had found a new champion

Here's a song to those who are gone with never a reason why
And a toast of the wine at the end of the line
And a toll of the bell for the next one to die

[graywarrior]

13. Wow.

That is intense. And just wonderful. Thank you.

[Ken Burch]

15. You're welcome.

As someone put it "we walk in the footsteps of giants".

[uppityperson]

14. another kick for a fine set of photos, journaling my life

from being a child to now. It's been quite a 50+ yrs.

[Deep13]

20. Emmet Till

Beaten to death by white supremists in 1955. This was one of the sparks that set of the powerkeg of the civil rights movement.

[Ken Burch]

21. self-delete. dupe post.

n/t.

[Ken Burch]

22. His mother insisted on having the casket left open, so the world could see

what those "men" had done to him.

And this image of young black South Africans in the Soweto uprising of 1976(an uprising started by unarmed teenagers, at great physical risk and great loss of life)

[tilsammans]

23. Amen!

And thank you! for posting these.

:kick:

[Deep13]

24. ex-slaves who had the guts to believe in freedom

[Kalyke]

25. Let's win it for these people:

[Deep13]

26. Fuckin' Ay, Bubbah.

:thumbsup:

[Ken Burch]

27. We're doing that too.

That's covered under "and for ourselves".

[americanmaverick]

28. This is a wonderful thread !

Thx, almost made me cry.

[Deep13]

29. Mary Wollstonecraft, 18th century English women's rights advocate.

edit: substituted with a smaller pic.

[Deep13]

31. murdered in 1998 because he was gay

[Ken Burch]

32. Thank you for adding that one.

n/t.

[Deep13]

34. There's been so many anonymous victims of "queer bashing"...

...but this is the only one (along with Harvey Milk) that I know for sure.

[fizzgig]

37. i was going to post that

thank you for adding it

[myrna minx]

40. .

:cry: Thank you for remembering Matthew.

[Deep13]

36. Joe Hill

[thenext8seconds]

41. What's this picture from?

[Ken Burch]

42. Vietnam.

The last three were Vietnam, Katrina and Iraq.

[FUCK_BUSH]

43. YES WE CAN AND YES WE MUST. GOD WILL SAVE THIS GREAT NATION.

[Deep13]

44. We we can and yes we will.

Our citizens will save this great nation.

[Laelth]

45. For my children and for all the people of the United States.

Great post.

The United States is a LIBERAL Country.

:dem:

-Laelth