We have got through with the South Carolina and Louisiana [problems]. At any rate, the troops are ordered away, and I now hope for... peace, and what is equally important, security and prosperity for the colored people. The result of my plans is to get from those States by their governors, legislatures, press, and people pledges that the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments shall be faithfully observed; that the colored people shall have equal rights to labor, education, and the privileges of citizenship. I am confident this is good work. Time will tell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The daily arguments over putting away the toys or practicing the piano defeat us so easily. We see them coming yet they frustrate ...us time and time again. In many cases, we are mothers and fathers who have managed budgets and unruly bosses and done difficult jobs well through sheer tenacity and dogged preparation. So why are we unable to persuade someone three feet tall to step into six inches of water at bathtime?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What are we? Well, if you are asking me a question, I will answer you. Here it is: we are this country and it is nothing without u...s, nothing at all.... And in spite of all this, we are poor, it is true; we are indigent, that's true; we are miserable, that's true too. But, brother, do you know why? Because of our ignorance: we do not yet know that we are a force, a unified force--all of us, the peasants, the Negroes of the plains and of the mountains put together. One day, we will have understood this fact, and we will rise from one end of the country to another, and we will form the general assembly of the masters of the dew, the great coumbite of the workers of the earth to clear away misery and plant a new life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. ...But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What though the traveler tell us of the ruins of Egypt, are we so sick or idle that we must sacrifice our America and today to som...e man's ill-remembered and indolent story? Carnac and Luxor are but names, or if their skeletons remain, still more desert sand and at length a wave of the Mediterranean Sea are needed to wash away the filth that attaches to their grandeur. Carnac! Carnac! here is Carnac for me. I behold the columns of a larger and purer temple.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'But where can we draw water,' Said Pearse to Connolly,... 'When all the wells are parched away? O plain as plain can be There's nothing but our own red blood Can make a right Rose Tree.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do not forsake your friend or the friend of your parent; do not go to the house of your kindred in the day of your calamity. Bette...r is a neighbor who is nearby than kindred who are far away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »