We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.
— from Robert Hayden's Words in the Mourning Time; Hayden, born on this day in 1913, was the first African-American to be the Library of Congress poetry consultant (now the Poet Laureate position)
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i'm of the ignoring news persuasion today
I think there's just too much rage
Triple posting deliciousness!
We must not be frightened nor cajoled
into accepting evil as deliverance from evil.
We must go on struggling to be human,
though monsters of abstractions
police and threaten us.
— from Robert Hayden's Words in the Mourning Time; Hayden, born on this day in 1913, was the first African-American to be the Library of Congress poetry consultant (now the Poet Laureate position)
from todayinliterature.com
no i think im gonna stick with the public hangings and stonings, but the intellectual side of me appreciattes what you have quoted
stonings,LOL...sorry scecina,but i keep on thinking about monty pythons life of brian
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