Thank you
I can't imagine the pain and humiliation that she faced in her life. It is is simply evil. Yet, she holds her head up high, gracious and continues to work hard to advance her rights and those oppressed. God bless her!
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- Oct 2020
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All of this is on account we want to register, to become first-class citizens
All the pain and suffering for the reason of just wanting to exercise the American right to vote. Pure evil existed.
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The first Negro prisoner ordered me, by orders from the State Highway Patrolman for me, to lay down on a bunk bed on my face, and I laid on my face.
Pure evil and racial hate that orders a fellow Negro to beat on another in custody. Was this so that the officers can say they never touched anyone, as if it mattered.
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“It was a State Highway Patrolman and a chief of police ordered us out.”
The same people who are pledged to serve and protect as well as represent the state and the Constitution are the same that led the violation and trampled on the civil rights of Ms. Hamer and her associates.
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- Sep 2020
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To pay the veterans of our wars what we owe them and to care for their disabled
The basic arguments of his proposal ring true to the arguments we still pursue today. The progressive way of thinking at a time when monopolies controlled most if not all the financial realm shows his great vision and makes you wonder what could have been if he were not assassinated.
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We will not say we are going to try to guarantee any equality
Mr. Long is not proposing financial equality, but he is trying to limit the most upper and most lower ends of the specturm in order to provide a more fair opportunity in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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There is an average of $15,000 in wealth to every family in America. That is right here today.
Mr. Long made a bold statement on looking out for our fellow man. If we are to live in a united nation under God by the Constitution that goeverns us;shouldn't we live by the words that it provides?
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The question then comes
Mr DuBois alludes to the question, how can a person advance if they do not have a leg to stand on? It doesn't benefit to strip a person of their civil rights, any kind of political power, and their education and then expect them to prosper.
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Mr. Washington represents in Negro thought the old attitude of adjustment and submission; but adjustment at such a peculiar time as to make his programme unique.
Mr. DuBois believes that Mr. Washington's plan is an old and outdated way of thinking. It seems to Mr. DuBois that there are more important ideals like self respect, pride, and purpose. It seems he feels that way too much is given up in the name of advancement.
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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
Mr. Washington recognizes there are differences among them with different ideas and motivation, but they can all still coexist as one, all needing the other.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top. Nor should we permit our grievances to overshadow our opportunities.
Mr. Washington walks a fine line in trying to promote the advancement of his brethren. Walking this line helped advance the cause for better educational opportunites and support for Tuskegee Institute. Taking into consideration the time period, I do believe there is great worth in all honest labor. but a person shouldn't place limits on what they can become or dare to dream.
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Cast down your bucket where you are” — cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded.
Mr. Washington alludes to the fact that his brethren are heading north for a better way of life, but tells them to stay in the South and seek to promote black progress and opportunities.
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And a third and fourth signal for water was answered, “Cast down your bucket where you are.” The captain of the distressed vessel, at last heading the injunction, cast down his bucket, and it came up full of fresh, sparkling water from the mouth of the Amazon River.
I believe Mr. Washington makes a great visualization in presenting his and his brethren's appeal to desperately hear his/their repeated call and answer in a way that they can hear and see loud and clear.
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