Strength In Barbara John's 'Imagine This Was Your School'

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.-Gandhi” The first part of this quote means that the power needed to have strength doesn’t come in the form of muscles. The second part means that will and perseverance is the true strength that lets a person reach their goals. This quote has been the motivation and the brain behind many peaceful protesters from a small of sit-ins to the marches in washington with hundreds of thousands of people.
“Imagine This was Your School” is a text about Barbara Johns and how she takes a stand against the school board and their racism against africans to get a more equal education. Barbara was raised in a time when africans were beat up and killed for no reason besides a white person accuses them of something so standing up for equality was dangerous. This supports Gandhi's quote because, she wasn’t strong physically to stand up and fight back if she was ganged up on for an alleged crime but, because of her will to make a difference in her community she was able to follow through with her plan to give a speech that started a peaceful march in her home town.
Another text that gives an example of someone taking Gandhi's quote and using it in real life is “Teen Freedom fighters” this is a text about
All four of these boys simply sat at a counter that was for white americans and them only waiting for someone to serve them while not causing any kind of trouble they kept going to the sit ins even after they were bullied, heckled, and given death threats but didn’t give up and continued protesting peacefully and with a great will they desegregated many places including all the restaurants within the entire community of