 | Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson - African Americans - 1920 - 332 pages
...are here on suff ranee bare; Outcasts, asylumed 'neath these skies, And aliens without part or share. This land is ours by right of birth, This land is ours by right of toil; We helped to turn its virgin earth, Our sweat is in its fruitful soil. Where once the tangled forest... | |
 | Frederick German Detweiler - Literary Criticism - 1922 - 292 pages
...trod, From heathen kraals and jungle dens. To freedmen, freemen, sons of God, Americans and citizens. This land is ours by right of birth, This land is ours by right of toil; We helped to turn its virgin earth, Our sweat is in its fruitful soil. That banner which is now the... | |
 | Brander Matthews - American poetry - 1922 - 284 pages
...shivering score, Snatched from their haunts across the seas, Stood, wild-eyed, on Virginia's shore. This land is ours by right of birth, This land is ours by right of toil; We helped to turn its virgin earth, Our sweat is in its fruitful soil. Where once the tangled forest... | |
 | African Americans - 1923 - 656 pages
...landed at Jamestown and at Plymouth stood the American Negro. Indeed, he has every right to say : — This land is ours by right of birth, This land is ours by right of toil ; We helped to turn its virgin earth, Our sweat is in its fruitful soil. Where once the tangled forest... | |
 | Newman Ivey White, Walter Clinton Jackson - African Americans - 1924 - 276 pages
...here on sufferance bare ; Outcasts, asylumed 'neath these skies, And aliens without part or share. This land is ours by right of birth, This land is ours by right of toil ; We helped to turn its virgin earth, Our sweat is in its fruitful soil. Where once the tangled forest... | |
 | James Weldon Johnson - African Americans - 1983 - 316 pages
...here on sufferance bare ; Outcasts, asylumed 'neath these skies, And aliens without part or share. This land is ours by right of birth, This land is ours by right of toil; We helped to turn its virgin earth, Our sweat is in its fruitful soil. Where once the tangled forest... | |
 | United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) - African Americans - 1994 - 20 pages
...Then, in a more assertive tone, making certain that humility did not replace self-confidence, he said: This land is ours by right of birth, This land is ours by right of toil We helped to turn its virgin earth, Our sweat is in its fruitful soil. To gain these fruits that have... | |
 | Jo Ann Gibson Robinson - History - 1989 - 220 pages
...Washington Carver touched the core of democracy years ago when he said to Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune: This land is ours by right of birth; this land is ours by right of toil. We helped to turn its virgin earth; our sweat is in its fruitful soil. — Brander Matthews, To Make... | |
 | Kinfe Abraham - African Americans - 1991 - 306 pages
...are here on sufferance bare; Outcasts, asylumed 'neath these skies, And aliens without part or share. This land is ours by right of birth, This land is ours by right of toil; We helped to turn its virgin earth, Our sweat is in its fruitful soil. James Weldon Johnson2 The American... | |
 | Wilson Jeremiah Moses - Social Science - 2010 - 301 pages
...rephrasing, though slightly more assertive, of well-known lines from the Atlanta Exposition Address: This land is ours by right of birth, This land is ours by right of toil; We helped to turn its virgin earth, Our sweat is in its fruitful soil,lr When Washington reminded his... | |
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This land is ours by right of birth, This land is ours by right of toil; We helped to turn its virgin earth, Our sweat is in its fruitful soil. 
