There was a connection to the earth that the Native Americans felt. ... An Indian Proverb states "treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." We need to treat the Earth how we want the Earth to treat us. ... It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and all men. ...

• Word Count: 2660
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Claude McKay illustrates the struggle of black people in a very racist environment in his poem "Enslaved," "Oh when I think of my long-suffering race, for weary centuries despised, oppressed, enslaved and lynched, denied a human place in the great life line of the Christian West; and in the Black Land disinherited, robbed in the ancient country of its birth, my heart grows sick with hate, becomes as lead, for this my race that has no home on earth. Then from the dark depths of my soul I cry to the avenging angel to consume the white man's world of wonders utterly: let it be...

• Word Count: 2640
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It had been a long time since anybody (good-willed whitewoman, preacher speaker or newspaperman) sat at their table, their sympathetic voices called liar by the revulsion in their eyes. ... She did not tell them they were the blessed of the earth, its inheriting meek or its glory bound pure. ...

• Word Count: 3715
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

It had been a long time since anybody (good-willed whitewoman, preacher speaker or newspaperman) sat at their table, their sympathetic voices called liar by the revulsion in their eyes. ... She did not tell them they were the blessed of the earth, its inheriting meek or its glory bound pure. ...

• Word Count: 3712
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

The moral compass of natural law would bring an end to segregation and discrimination that had been forced on the black members of society through hundreds of years of positivist law that unfairly disbursed the burdens of the society in the pursuit of the common good. That it was time for a shift of the burden and benefits scale to more equally reflect all of those who have worked hard to promote the common good of that society. ... In this instance King felt that his duty to obey the laws would not serve the common good as the laws were not laid out with the common good of all of society in...

• Word Count: 2706
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Fear is the emotion that runs his life, this is because of his natal-separation from the south 'the earth my mother'15 as well as the black people around him. ... The earth becomes a symbol of the south – home to the African-American people. ...

• Word Count: 3347
• Approx Pages: 13

The author refers to the night club as a place that sees a multitude people of the same suffering, especially racism; they gather for a consolation and experiencing good time. ... There are a good number of African-Americans that have scientific skills, but there are no opportunities to apply their competence. ... The Nation of Islam believes that the whites were raised from the African by a barmy scientist in an endeavor to let loose evil on earth. ...

• Word Count: 3645
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography

The Works of James Baldwin We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only forces that can change it. James Baldwin was born in Harlem on August 2, 1924. Shortly after his birth his mother married David Baldwin, a factory worker and Pentecostal minister. Baldwin was the eldest of nine children. Because of his troubled relationship with his strict stepfather, Baldwin turned to reading as a way to escape. ...

• Word Count: 2618
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Since blacks were so low, they were never given a good education. ... In the 1800's everyone's feelings about slavery, good or bad, culminated in one big war, the American Civil War. ... Groups such as the Nazi skinheads make it very difficult for blacks to get a good education because they are constantly worried about being verbally or even physically assaulted. ...

• Word Count: 2609
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

"To the slave, your celebration is a sham your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery .There is not a nation on the Earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States," stated Frederick Douglass at an Independence Day speech in New York. ... This is compelling because it shows not only whites but some blacks created the idea that Malcolm X was a terrible person with no good in him. ...

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The phrase "You are as good as anyone" was very common in conversation between Negro mothers and their children. ... Subsequently despite his parent's preachings to him that being a good Christian he should not hate the white man but love him, the question arose in his mind. ...

• Word Count: 3793
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

This is just a small example of the doubt and hatred that was bestowed on the African American soldiers. However, during the war, they proved themselves to be brave and courageous men on and off the battlefield on many occasions. Despite deep prejudices and harsh criticisms from the white society, t...

• Word Count: 4026
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School