To: allmendream; blues_guitarist
Thank you for digging up this salient quote! This is indeed an American classic that has always needed wider exposure.
9 posted on
02/23/2011 3:34:52 PM PST by
jobim
To: jobim
Didn't take any digging, I was reading the book for the first time and just wondering why it wasn't assigned reading at some point in my education, when up popped that quote!
11 posted on
02/23/2011 3:43:05 PM PST by
allmendream
(Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
To: jobim; blues_guitarist
From “Up From Slavery” about the “colored” people in Washington D.C..
“Among a large class there seemed to be a dependence upon the Government for every conceivable thing. The members of this class had little ambition to create a position for themselves, but wanted the Federal officials to create one for them.”
The more some things change, the more others just stay the same, apparently!
14 posted on
02/25/2011 12:32:19 PM PST by
allmendream
(Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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