The colored woman feels that woman's cause is one and universal; and that not till the image of God, whether in parian or ebony, i...s sacred and inviolable; not till race, color, sex and condition are seen as the accidents and not the substance of life ... [ellipsis in source] not till then is woman's lesson taught and woman's cause won--not the white woman's, nor the red woman's, but the cause of every man and every woman who has writhed silently under a mighty wrong. Woman's wrongs are thus indissolubly linked with all undefended woe, and the acquirement of her "rights" will mean the final triumph of all right over might, the supremacy of the moral force of reason, and justice, and love in the government of the nations of the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and ...the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pity, like a naked, new-born babe Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubins, horsed... Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
his head May not lie on the breast nor his lips on the hair... Of the woman that he loves, until he dies. O beast of the wilderness, bird of the air, Must I endure your amorous cries?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the UN and what it means clear...ly. Everything will be all right--you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.... It is a place ...where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community.... It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O animal excellence, Take pterodactyl flight... Fire-winged into the air And find your lair With cunning sense On some Arabian bight....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is the poem of the air, Slowly in silent syllables recorded;... This is the secret of despair, Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded, Now whispered and revealed To wood and field.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,... Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow Descends the snow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »