Better build schoolrooms for "the boy",
Than cells and gibbets for "the man".

Eliza Cook

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Topic

Education

Author

Eliza Cook

Source

A Song for the Ragged Schools

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1853 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Cook, Eliza. A Song for the Ragged Schools. c. 1853.

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?
I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

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Medium
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Language
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Time
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Original Citation

Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, poem 1.

Current Citation

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No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

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Author

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Source
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Citation

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