{"exhibit":{"title":"Pearl M. Hart","description":"<p><i>...I defend the foreign born against the present deportation hysteria because of a consciousness that it was the foreign born and their children who built this nation of ours and who have been its most loyal partisans.<\/i><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Pearl Hart from appeal presented in U.S. v. Witkovich<br \/>to the Supreme Court in 1957<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>The homosexual should stop viewing himself as a memer of a minority and assert the equal rights which are already his.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Pearl Hart from presentation at public meeting<br \/>of Mattachine Midwest, July 1965<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>She was a tough lady. The tougher it got, the tougher she got. And the tougher she got, the better she served her own commitment.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">David Rothstein, National Lawyers Guild<br \/>at Pearl Hart's memorial service in 1975.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>It's funny how history catches up with Pearl....&nbsp; Her mission was always to defend the underdog--in a sense recognizing the illness of the overdog as well. Pearl Hart is certainly dead. Shie is dead becuase she first lived.<br \/><\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Studs Terkel<br \/>at Pearl Harts' memorial service in 1975.<\/p>","credits":"","featured":0,"public":1,"theme":"","theme_options":null,"slug":"pearlhart","added":"2021-03-20 03:13:01","modified":"2021-05-10 17:54:07","owner_id":1,"use_summary_page":1,"cover_image_file_id":234,"id":12},"item":{"item_type_id":null,"collection_id":7,"featured":0,"public":1,"added":"2021-03-22 11:49:23","modified":"2021-03-22 11:49:36","owner_id":1,"id":221}}