11 Quotes by Melba Pattillo Beals

If you go only where you are welcome, that’s where other people want you to go, not where you choose to go. You’re limited by their vision – not living your own dreams.

Life’s lessons come from unexpected places. We cannot afford to allow prejudices to shut out God’s blessings. Being equal is based on seeing equal. It is seated in each individual’s willingness to claim their own equality despite all evidence to the contrary and all talk by others who dare to question their value.