Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
| Goodman Ace, Writer (1899) |
| Ernest Gaines, Writer (1933) |
| Adam Jones, Musician (1965) |
| Martin Luther King, Jr., Leader (1929) |
| Regina King, Actress (1971) |
| Les Baxter, Musician (1996) |
| Sammy Cahn, Musician (1993) |
| Emanuel Celler, Politician (1981) |
| Josephus Daniels, Politician (1948) |
| Edward Everett, Statesman (1865) |
| Fannie Farmer, Celebrity (1915) |
| Minnesota Fats, Celebrity (1996) |
| Elizabeth Janeway, Author (2005) |
| Meyer Lansky, Criminal (1983) |

