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Saturday 22 June 2013

Did you know Crispus Attucks died as a free colonialist in the American colonies? A new documentary is coming out that will trace his most unique ancestry and the progress of his descendents.  Here are some quotes from a historian who was also fond apparently of Philiis  http://books.google.ca/books?id=XaxizKhPpIUC&lpg=PP1&dq=phyliss%20weatley&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false  Wheatley's poems.


http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Measure_of_a_Man.html?id=g0vKTybLo3wC


Page 17 - To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth The way his soul shall go.
Page 35 - And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length, and the breadth, and the height of it are equal.

Page 41 - I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.
Page 16 - that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights — among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,' I shall strenuously contend for the immediate enfranchisement of our slave population.
Page 12 - Rauschenbusch that any religion which professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the social and economic conditions that scar the soul, is a spiritually moribund religion only waiting for the day to be buried.
Page 45 - And: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and all thy soul and all thy mind and all thy strength." The second is this: "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

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