Quote of the day
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Mary Seacole
Born: 1805
Died: May 14, 1881 (aged 76)
Bio: Mary Jane Seacole was a Jamaican business woman who set up the British Hotel behind the lines during the Crimean War.







