If I thought going to war would bring freedom and equality to twenty-two million of my people, they wouldn't have to draft me. I'd join tomorrow. But I either have to obey the laws of the land or the laws of Allah. I have nothing to lose by standing up and following my beliefs. We've been in jail for four hundred years.
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Consciousness and conscience are burdens imposed upon us by the American experiment. They are the AmericanÆs agony, but when he tries to live up to their stern demands they become his justification.
As an American scholar and author, Ralph Ellison won acclaim for his depiction of an anonymous black youth in the novel, Invisible Man. Download the distinguished literary giant with this wallpaper.
Rosa Parks' played a key role in the Supreme Court's decision to make segregation on public transportation illegal. As a civil rights leader and desktop companion, Rosa Parks' fight for racial justice continues to inspire.
Now I hears talkin' about de Constitution and de rights of man. I comes up and I takes hold of dis Constitution. It looks mighty big, and I feels for my rights, but der aint any dare. Den I says, God, what ails dis Constitution? He says to me, 'Sojourner, dere is a little weasel in it.'
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...so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance, and disease of the majority of their fellowmen, that to maintain this privilege men have waged war until today war tends to become universal and continuous...
W.E.B. Du Bois is one of the most notable political activists in American history. Liberate your desktop with this wallpaper.
