One quote was good to me "We the darker ones come even now not altogether empty-handed: there are to-day no truer exponents of the pure human spirit of the Declaration of Independence than the American Negroes; there is no true American music but the wild sweet melodies of the Negro slave; the American fairy tales and Indian and African, and, all in all, we men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. ... This quote has a amount of importance on music and were it comes from. ... Such an example would be the quote. ... The quote is strong wit...

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Atticus and Boo Radly exemplify the meaning of this quote by being good neighbors in, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. ... Martin Luther King's entire quote. ... Atticus and Boo Radly's unexpected situations altogether represent the meaning of Martin Luther Kings quote. ...

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But, he knew the person was white by this quote someone said he said. ... Another thing is that some people even put animals above blacks, as told in the rest of the quote. ... As you tell by this quote, " you've got to do something about her. ...

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Martin Luther King Jr. uses rhetorical strategies, such as logic, quotes from the bible, and authority figures in his letter to the eight clergymen. ... Martin Luther King Jr. uses quotes from the bible and other authority figures to strengthen his argument in the letter to the eight clergymen. Martin uses quotes from the bible because the eight clergymen were bishops, pastors, and rabbis. ... Martin also quotes St. ... He uses these authority figures to show that he might be an extremist, but he is doing it for the good of his people just as did the people he had quoted. ...

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Huck says "Miss Watson's nigger Jim had a hair ball the size of your fist," in this quote is positively shows that Huck is just referring to Jim; he does not mean any harm by it. ... This is shown in this quotation, " I took me fifteen minutes before I could go humble myself to a nigger," in this quote Huck is defying what he was brought up to believe and going and apologizing to Jim. ...

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Huck says "Miss Watson's nigger Jim had a hair ball the size of your fist," in this quote is positively shows that Huck is just referring to Jim; he does not mean any harm by it. ... This is shown in this quotation, " I took me fifteen minutes before I could go humble myself to a nigger," in this quote Huck is defying what he was brought up to believe and going and apologizing to Jim. ...

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He then proceeded by quoting Aeschylus, an ancient Greek poet: "My favorite poet was Aeschylus. ... When the quote is used with the same context of the speech it clearly shows that he is doing this to try and comfort the crowds. Those are some of the most important quotes throughout the speech, not to take away from the rest of the speech though. ...

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" This quote speaks to the theme that if one is not seen as important in society's eyes then justice is unlikely to be rightfully served to them. ... The use of diction in that quote, as well as the rest of the book, helps to convey the message that the monster is unfairly treated. ... The quote, "There's a black boy dead for no reason," reflects on that notion that unjustified mistreatment is brutally shown towards people of color. ...

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During the credits, Spike Lee chooses to display two quotes, one by Martin Luther King, Jr. and another by Malcolm X. ​ ... During the movies ending credits, Spike Lee includes two quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X. In my opinion, he places them side by side to compare the two quotes with how similar, but also very different they are. In MLK's quote he says "Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral....

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In one of his amazing speeches Martin Luther King quoted the above. The quote starts off with Martin Luther King talking about the people that wrote the Constitution and the declaration of indepencdance. ...

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In John Howard Griffin's book "Black Like Me", Griffin takes a six week journey into the South as a black man and by darkening his skin with medication he traveled for those six weeks attempting to discover what it was like to black in the South in the late 1950's. He found among other things a cru...

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An example of his strong personality comes in a quote about Booker T's death: "In stern justice, we must lay on the soul of this man a heavy responsibility for the consummation of Negro disfranchisement, the decline of the Negro college and public school, and the firmer establishment of a color caste in this land.... " This quote is a brilliant example of why DuBois was less effective than Washington. ...

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Black like me In John Howard Griffin's book "Black Like Me", Griffin takes a six week journey into the South as a black man by darkening his skin with medication. He travels for those six weeks attempting to discover what it was like to be black in the South during the late 1950's. He ...

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In this quote "That Great Social and Economic Questions a wait her interference, that she could throw any light on problems of national import, that her intermeddling could improve the management of school systems, or elevate the tone of public intuitions, or humanize and sanctify the far reaching influence of prisons and reformatories and improve the treatment of lunatics and imbeciles; Cooper emphasizes the strengths of a African American woman. ... Copper quoted a European Written "Except the Slavonic, the Negro is the only original and distinctive genius who has yet came to grow...

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"Freedom don't come cheap" is not only quote that can be adapted to the 1970's but also to our present day. We have soldiers over in Iraq right now risking their lives so that we the people of the United State may not only have simple freedoms but that we may go about a day without having to be wor...

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Injustice was flourishing, and the pressure of racial segregation was on the rise. One of the most influential people of the movement for black civil rights in the United States, Martin Luther King, Jr., was arrested during his visit to Birmingham, Alabama. In "Letter from Birmingham Jail", King res...

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1. Danny Vinyard was influenced greatly by his brother. Derek Vinyard was basically the write hand man of Cameron Alexander, who was the leader of the D.O.C. Danny probably saw that Derek was in a high position and idolized him so therefore he took steps to someday hold the position Derek held. ...

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In the story Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O"connor, there is question as to why Julian acts so negatively towards his mother. There are many examples in the story that can prove or disprove either side. Julian was disrespectful towards his mother based on different views they had ...

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"Violation of the laws of Nature and of Nation and in defiance of all the tender feelings of humanity, brought hither to be like Beasts of Burden" this quote was taken from Petition to the Massachusetts General Assembly, this is different than all the other selections because Hall is not talking about the British in the writing. ...

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Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." This quote means that there should not be discrimination against anything. Throughout Amer...

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When you think of America, what comes to mind? America, land of the free and home of brave, where equality is shared by all and opportunities for success are ample. It's 2015, and a black man sits proudly in the oval office, commanding the most powerful nation in the world. We've come quite a long w...

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"Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world. It makes us more sensitive to the world, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds." This quote written by an unknown author is very true. If you read literature and really soa...

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I often quote the penetrating words of Bantu Steve Biko, the Azanian activist and author who was murdered while in the custody of the South African police under apartheid: "The greatest tool in the hand of the oppressor is the African mind!" ...

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No one has ever said that life is easy, especially those that lived during the 1930's and 40's in an era known as The Great Depression. During the depression, life was an on going struggle for all. In the South, it seemed that African Americans suffered the greatest. When the novel "I Know Why T...

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Outsiders All of the people in "Of mice and men" are outsiders in there own right, they have all been disallowed, or to a certain extent not wanted to have certain rights because of things such a sex, race and different disabilities. The word 'outsider' means to not be in a certain group of peopl...

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