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Page 101 - Because my father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you. And no Fascist-minded people will drive me from it. Is that clear...
Page 75 - POUR forth the oil, — pour boldly forth ; It will not fail, until Thou failest vessels to provide Which it may largely fill.
Page 62 - I hate these shackles of the mind, Forg'd by the haughty wise ; Souls were not born to be confin'd, And led, like Samson, blind and bound ; But when his native strength he found He well aveng'd his eyes.
Page 111 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these.
Page 124 - Muslim political leader. He studied law and philosophy in Europe (1905-08) and, on his return to India, taught philosophy and literature, practiced law, and soon achieved fame as a poet. He wrote in both Persian and Urdu. The British knighted Iqbal in 1922 in recognition of his poetry. His works include Asrar-e khudi (1915; translated as The Secrets of the Self, 1920, 1940), Payam-e Mashrig (The Message of the East, 1923), and The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (1934). Iqbal also became...
Page 116 - Coming of Age in Samoa (1928), Growing Up in New Guinea...
Page 61 - Goblin Market and other Poems (1862), The Prince's Progress and other Poems (1866), Sing-Song (1872), A Pageant and other Poems (1881) ; and, after her death, some New Poems (1896).
Page 66 - Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the coming kingdom of our ancestor David! Hosanna in the highest heaven!
Page 25 - Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the American Jewish Congress, have had on the Supreme Court.
Page 44 - I pray for one last landing On the globe that gave me birth; Let me rest my eyes on the fleecy skies And the cool, green hills of Earth." Or perhaps you sang in French, or German. Or it might have been Esperanto, while Terra's rainbow banner rippled over your head. The language does not matter— it was certainly an Earth tongue. No one has ever translated "Green Hills" into the lisping Venerian speech; no Martian ever croaked and whispered...