When we returned ... a Province man was betraying his greenness to the Yankees by his questions. Why Province money won't pass her...e at par, when States' money is good at Fredericton,--though this, perhaps, was sensible enough. From what I saw then, it appears that the Province man was now the only real Jonathan, or raw country bumpkin, left so far behind by his enterprising neighbors that he didn't know enough to put a question to them. No people can long continue provincial in character who have the propensity for politics and whittling, and rapid traveling, which the Yankees have, and who are leaving the mother country behind in the variety of their notions and inventions. The possession and exercise of practical talent merely are a sure and rapid means of intellectual culture and independence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The respect for human rights is one of the most significant advantages of a free and democratic nation in the peaceful struggle fo...r influence, and we should use this good weapon as effectively as possible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is the 184th Demonstration. ...... What we do is not beautiful hurts no one makes no one desperate we do not break the panes of safety glass stretching between people on the street and the deaths they hire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This nation is founded on blood like a city on swamps yet its dream has been beautiful and sometimes just... that now grows brutal and heavy as a burned out star.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only when we break the mirror and climb into our vision, only when we are the wind together streaming and singing,... only in the dream we become with our bones for spears, we are real at last and wake.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse.... ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement. People want to push the buttons and see me glow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »