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Kendrick Johnson


Let Our Voices Echo

Thank you Jim Fisher

Kendrick Johnson

Kendrick Johnson attended Lowndes High School in Valdosta, Georgia. The thin, muscular 17-year-old played on the football and basketball teams. After attending his fourth period class on Thursday, January 10, 2013, Kendrick went missing. The next morning someone discovered the student’s body stuffed upside-down inside a rolled-up wrestling mat that stood on its end in the school gymnasium. He was dead.

Lowndes County Sheriff Chris Prine, in charge of the death scene investigation, quickly concluded that the high school student’s death had been accidental. According to Sheriff Prine, Kendrick must have gone into the mat head-first to retrieve a shoe or some other item. The sheriff theorized that Kendrick got stuck inside the mat and suffocated.

On January 25, 2013, the head of the Valdosta-Lowndes Regional Crime Laboratory where a forensic pathologist had performed the autopsy ten days earlier, informed members of the media that Johnson’s…

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What do Women Think About?


Hello to everyone. I am going to share ideas and thoughts from women who are famous in some way. I was thinking about thinking and decided to share some very good thoughts. What do you think about what these women are thinking about?

 

“One can not be an American by going about saying one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.”   —Georgia O’Keeffe, American artist  (1887-1986

 

“One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts, once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness — simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.”   —George Sand, French writer and novelist  (1804-1876)

 

“I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.”  —Golda Meir, Ukrainian-born Israeli leader. (1898-1978)

 

“I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.”   —Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist (1820-1913)

 

“Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.”  —Harriet Beecher Stowe, American writer and activist  (1811-1896)

 

“Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings.”  —Helen Keller, American essayist  (1880-1968)

 

“Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.”  —Jane Addams, American activist  (1860-1935)

 

“Action is the antidote to despair.”  —Joan Baez, American folk singer  (1941-    )

 

“We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”  —Julia Ward Howe, American activist, founder of Girl Scouts of America  (1819-1910)

 

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”  —Lucille Ball, American comedienne  (1911-1989)

 

 

Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball

 

 

 

Joan Baez

Joan Baez

 

Jane Addams

Jane Addams

 

 

 

Helen Keller

Helen Keller

 

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman

 

Golda Meir

Golda Meir

 

 

George Sand, French writer

George Sand, French writer

 

 

 

 

Georgia O'Keeffe, artist and painter

Georgia O’Keeffe, artist and painter