What obstacles did Frederick Douglass face?The Obstacles Faced by Frederick Douglass:Douglass saw the struggle against slavery as comparable to the Founding Fathers' struggle for liberty from the British Empire; in his speech "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?", he said: "They were ...
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. —Felix Mendelssohn We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges. —Tim Berners Lee Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative. —Vandana Shiva In crucial things, unity....
Finally, in 1977, incensed by Chavez’s visit to the Philippines, where President Ferdinand E. Marcos had declared martial law, Vera Cruz resigned from the board. “We in the union believed in the general principle of freedom,” he says. “Cesar’s trip to a dictatorship . . . was in...
I don't watch much television but I do have Facebook going on all day--often when I am work--even though I still distrust the often-shallow and culturally illiterate Wild West Show that is the Internet. I've never been an early adopter of anything digital except to get work done when...
But it is usually the social riff-raff, discharged prisoners and the like, whom either the struggle for life or their own inclination drives into the ranks. These, their military term over, again turn to their former life of crime, more brutalized and degraded than before. It is a well-...