The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs... from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast. Hence the janitor who lives in one room but sports a robin's-egg-blue Cadillac is not laughed at but admired, and the domestic who buys forty-dollar shoes is not criticized but is appreciated. We know that they have put to use their full mental and physical powers. Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.... I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediate...ly include it among their ornaments.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The day that the Black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he is within his rights, when his own freedom is being j...eopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is hard to believe that England is so near as from your letters it appears; and that this identical piece of paper has lately c...ome all the way from there hither, begrimed with the English dust which made you hesitate to use it; from England, which is only historical fairyland to me, to America, which I have put my spade into, and about which there is no doubt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Senta: These boats, sir, what are they for? Hamar: They are solar boats for Pharaoh to use after his death. They're the means... by which Pharaoh will journey across the skies with the sun, with the god Horus. Each day they will sail from east to west, and each night Pharaoh will return to the east by the river which runs underneath the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Great Spirit, who made all things, made every thing for some use, and whatever use he designed anything for, that use it shoul...d always be put to. Now, when he made rum, he said "Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with," and it must be so.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those great ideas which come to you in your sleep just before you awake in morning, those solutions to the world's problems which,... in the light of day, turn out to be duds of the puniest order, couldn't they be put to some use, after all?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business o...f the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the people who sit still on a long railroad journey reach that journey's end at precisely the same time as those who "fuss" continually, we have a valuable piece of information which we should not fail to put to practical use.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »