country has required people to sacrifice and make institutionalized discrimination so visible no one could avert their eyes. People stepped forward knowing they could lose their homes, lose their jobs, their safety. They walked willingly toward hateful mobs and police with snarling dogs. They turned a proposed one day bus boycott into 381 days of solidarity. They sacrificed and the country watched and changed. Every civil rights struggle in this country has required people to sacrifice. The country is watching. Are we ready to do the same?" References External links Equality Florida IGLYO Smith Gives Letter to President Obama Black LGBT history Marriage Debate Florida Mayor makes inroads No Excuses? Do We Really Mean It African-American activists Activists from Florida African-American women journalists African-American journalists Journalists from Florida American lesbians LGBT African Americans American LGBT journalists LGBT people from Florida American LGBT rights activists Lesbian journalists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century African-American women 21st-century American women Women civil rights activists 21st-century African-American women