I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes... I do not weep at the world-I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Zora Neale Hurston

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Topic

Black experience

Author

Zora Neale Hurston

Source

How It Feels to Be Colored Me

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Black writer Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Hurston, Zora Neale. "How It Feels to Be Colored Me." World Tomorrow, May 1928.

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If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.

Calvin Coolidge

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Equality Political progress Political theory American founding
Speaker
Calvin Coolidge
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1926 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Coolidge, Calvin. Speech on the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. 5 July 1926, Philadelphia, PA, USA.