So let us pray, not for him but for overselves and for all those whose job it is to wear those great big shoes he left this nation to fill...
In this country men can be born and live well and die without ever having to feel much of what makes their ease possible, just because so much is buried under all of this black and white mess that in their ignorance some folks accept it as a natural condition.
On this great day of deliverance, on this day of emancipation, let’s us tell ourselves our story.
Here in the fashion of our pioneer forefathers, who confronted the mysteries of wilderness, mountain and prairie with crude tools and a self-generating imagination, we are committed to facing with courage the enormous task of imposing an ever more humane order upon this bewilderingly diversified and constantly changing society. Committed we are to maintaining its creative momentum.
But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolised in the concrete form of a man. In something that gives a focus to all the other things he knows to be real. Something that makes unseen things manifest and allows him to come to his hopes and dreams through his outer eye and through the touch and feel of his natural hand.
If we’d been the kind to depend on the sword instead of the Lord, we’d been in our graves long ago.
Politics is an art of maneuvering, and to move them you must change home base.
My God, you don’t write out of your skin; you write out of your imagination.
Words of Emancipation didn’t arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. So that was it, the night of Juneteenth celebration, his mind went on. The celebration of a gaudy illusion.
No man sees all ... but ... you’ll see more ... than some men see in a lifetime.
What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's never a good sign.
If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.