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The cop panics-is it the image of a black man with a gun? He barks out conflicting orders and then shoots the man

While locating the appropriate documents, the black driver respectfully volunteers that he is legally carrying a handgun.

“He asks to see the driver’s license and registration. He sees a man with a wife and two small children. The cop quickly realizes the driver is not one of the robbery suspects. “A racist cop pulls over a black driver for little reason other than the fact that the driver is black and a recent robbery was committed by a couple of young black guys in a white community. More restive, ready to move ten million more feeling theĪnd tractors turning the multiple furrows in the vacant land.” Need is the stimulus to concept, concept to action.Ī half-million people moving over the country a million The Western States are nervous under the beginingĬhange. You forever into 'I,' and cuts you off forever from the 'we.' Jefferson, Lenin, were results, not causes, you might survive.īut that you cannot know. If you could separateĬauses from results, if you could know Paine, Marx, If you who own the things people must have could understand It was my mother'sīlanket-take it for the baby. Meat stewing in a single pot, the silent, stone-eyed women īehind, the children listening with their souls to words their The two men squatting in a ditch, the little fire, the side. Only a little multiplication now, and this land, this tractor are None.' If from this problem the sum is 'We have a littleįood,' the thing is on its way, the movement has direction.

More dangerous thing: 'I have a little food' plus 'I have And from this first 'we' there grows a still Land.' The danger is here, for two men are not as lonely and For here 'I lost my land' is changed a cell is splitĪnd from its splitting grows the thing you hate-'We lost our Here is the anlarge of the thing you fear. Two squatting men apart make them hate, fear, suspect each You can jail a revolutionary, but you can’t jail a revolution. The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would. Node, you who hate change and fear revolution. 15 Social Justice Quotes That Will Motivate You To Act 1. On their hams and the women and children listen. I am alone and bewildered.Īnd in the night one family camps in a ditch and anotherįamily pulls in and the tents come out. One man, one family driven from the land this rusty carĬreaking along the highway to the west. The people are driven, intimidated, hurt by both. There is little difference between this tractor and a tank. But the tractorĭoes two things-it turns the land and turns us off the land.

We have loved this land when it was ours. Turned the long furrows of our land, it would be good. Were ours it would be good-not mine, but ours. The power that turns the long furrows wrong? If this tractor wants tractors, not families on the land. The land company-that's the bank when it has land Pa borrowed money from the bank, and now the bank wants Texas and Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas, New Mexico,Īrizona, California. That was what was valuable about it.“The Western States nervous under the beginning change. Of course, it wasn't required of beauty that it perform a social function. The Venus de Milo screamed 'No!' at evil, whereas the Spandex stretch pant, the macrame plant holder were compliant with it. In a sense, beauty was the ultimate protest, and, in that it generally lasted longer than an orgasm, the ultimate refuge. And the very presence in life of double-wide mobile homes, Magic Marker graffiti, and orange shag carpeting had the effect of making ills such as poverty, crime, repression, pollution, and child abuse seem tolerable. The prevalence of social ugliness made commitment to physical beauty all the more essential. How could persons of good conscience pursue the beautiful when there was so much suffering and injustice in the world? Ellen Cherry's answer was that if one didn't cultivate beauty, soon he or she wouldn't be able to recognize ugliness. To most of her peers, 'beauty' smacked of the rarefied, the indulgent, the superfluous, the effete. The masses had been desensitized to it, the intelligentsia regarded it with suspicion. “Beauty! Wasn't that what mattered? Beauty was hardly a popular ideal at that jumpy moment in history.

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Quotes about growing up social justice