When in the enfranchisement of the black men [women] saw another ignorant class of voters placed about their heads, and beheld the... danger of a distinctively "male" government, forever involving the nations of the earth in war and violence; and demanded for the protection of themselves and children, that woman's voice should be heard and her opinions in public affairs be expressed by the ballot, they were coolly told that the black man had earned the right to vote, that he had fought and bled and died for his country. It was not because the three-penny tax on tea was so exorbitant that our Revolutionary fathers fought and died, but to establish the principle that such taxation was unjust. It is the same with this woman's revolution; though every law were as just to woman as to man, the principle that one class may usurp the power to legislate for another is unjust, and all who are now in the struggle from love of principle would still work on until the establishment of the grand and immutable truth, "All governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We can remember as easily as the day we were born The maggots we passed on the way and how the day bled... And the night too on hearing us, though we spoke only our childish Ideas and never tried to impress anybody even when somewhat older.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, Adorner of the ruin, comforter... And only healer when the heart hath bled; ... Time, the avenger!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The years seemed to stretch before her like the land: spring, summer, autumn, winter, spring; always the same patient fields, the ...patient little trees, the patient lives; always the same yearning; the same pulling at the chain--until the instinct to live had torn itself and bled and weakened for the last time, until the chain secured a dead woman, who might cautiously be released.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!... Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause, Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause, And when the storm of war was gone, Enjoyed the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the sheets and towels of a life we were going to share, The milk-stiff bibs, the shroud, each rag to be ever... Trampled or soiled, bled on or groped for blindly, Came swooning out of an enormous willow hamper Onto moon-marbly boards.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For this your mother sweated in the cold, For this you bled upon the bitter tree:... A yard of tinsel ribbon bought and sold; A paper wreath; a day at home for me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... there is a place in the United States for the Negro. They are real American citizens, and at home. They have fought and bled a...nd died, like men, to make this country what it is. And if they have got to suffer and die, and be lynched, and tortured, and burned at the stake, I say they are at home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »