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Shirley Fitzgerald is an elderly black widow who volunteers at the gift shop in the hospital where Rashad is recovering from his wounds. She is kind to Rashad, and they strike up a friendship. She tells him about her memories of the Civil Rights movement, admitting Rashad that at the time she was too scared to join in with the action, and that she regrets it now.
Shirley Fitzgerald Quotes in All American Boys
The All American Boys quotes below are all either spoken by Shirley Fitzgerald or refer to Shirley Fitzgerald . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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12. Wednesday: Rashad
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My brother took the bus trip down to Selma. He begged me to go. Begged me. But I told him it didn't matter. I told him that he was going to get himself killed, and that that wasn’t bravery, it was stupidity. So he went without
me. I watched the clips on the news. I saw him being beaten with everyone else, and realized that my brother, in fact, was the most courageous man I knew, because Selma had nothing to do with him. Well, one could argue that it did, a little bit. But he was doing it for us. All of us.
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Shirley Fitzgerald Quotes in All American Boys
The All American Boys quotes below are all either spoken by Shirley Fitzgerald or refer to Shirley Fitzgerald . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
12. Wednesday: Rashad
Quotes
My brother took the bus trip down to Selma. He begged me to go. Begged me. But I told him it didn't matter. I told him that he was going to get himself killed, and that that wasn’t bravery, it was stupidity. So he went without
me. I watched the clips on the news. I saw him being beaten with everyone else, and realized that my brother, in fact, was the most courageous man I knew, because Selma had nothing to do with him. Well, one could argue that it did, a little bit. But he was doing it for us. All of us.
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