Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

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► A young man walks through chest deep flood water after looting a grocery store in New Orleans on Tuesday, Aug. 30, Flood waters continue to rise in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina did extensive damage when it made landfall on Monday. AP Photo/Dave Martin

► Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store after Hurricane Katrina came through the area in New Orleans, Louisiana. AFP/ Getty Images/ Chris Graythen

Brown vs. Board of Education 1954

In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist; And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist; And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew; And then... they came for me... And by that time there was no one left to speak up."

In 1956, Georgia adopted a new state flag that, like Mississippi's, incorporated the Confederate battle flag in its design. Although some claim the new flag was adopted in anticipation of the Confederate Centennial in the 1960s, this argument was largely dismissed as disingenuous. In fact, the very sponsor of 1956 flag, former Georgia House floor speaker Denmark Groover, openly admitted forty-five years later that defiance of segregation was the motivating force behind the new flag, not historical sentiment. The flag, introduced two years after Brown v. Board of Education (1954), represented the Georgia legislature's protest against forced integration.

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