This is from the book To Kill A Mockingbird.
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He believes every person deserves the best possible legal representation. He make no distinction based upon race. His live in helper, Calpurnia, who is colored is treated as an equal in his home. He is color blind, unlike most of the white residents of his town.
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From the King James Verson in Matthew 15:14\n\n"Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."\n\nIn the Webster version the quote is:\n\n"Let them alone: they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leadeth the blind, both will fall into the ditch."
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To me, it signifies racism. It signifies ongoing support of the Southern Confederacy and the way of life for which they chose to fight, that of plantations living off the backs of slaves. It feels to me like the person flying it is sending the message that they still support the south (in reference to the Civil War, not just fond feelings of home...)and wish that the south would have won the war so that slavery could continue.  It signifies a smoldering resentment that AfroAmericans are now free to mingle in society. I'm sure plenty others will disagree, but that's what it signifies to me. By the way, I am white, if that affects how you interpret my response.
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First,\nIs this the one you mean?\n"It takes all sorts of in- and outdoor schooling \nTo get accustomed to my kind of fooling."\nIt is from his poem called "Something for Hope".\n\n"Something For Hope"\n\nAt the present rate it must come to pass\nAnd that right soon that the meadow sweet\nAnd steeple bush not good to eat\nWill have crowded out the edible grass.\n\nThen all there is to do is wait\nFor maple birch and spruce to push\nThrough meadow sweet and steeple bush\nAnd crowd them out at a similar rate.\n\nNo plow among these rocks would pay.\nSo busy yourself with other things\nWhile the trees put on their wooden rings\nAnd with long-sleeved branches hold their sway.\n\nThen cut down the trees when lumber grown,\nAnd there's your pristine earth all freed\nFrom lovely blooming but wasteful weed\nAnd ready again for the gr to own.\n\nA cycle we'll say of a hundred years.\nThus foresight does it and laissez faire,\nA virtue in which we all may share\nUnless a government interferes.\n\nPatience and looking away ahead,\nAnd leaving some things to take their course.\nHope may not nourish a cow or horse,\nBut spes alit agricolam 'tis said.\n\nSecond of all,\n"The Gift Outright" was a poem written by Frost and later recited by Frost at JFK's Inauguration.\n\n"The Gift Outright"\n~ The Gift Outright ~\n\nThe land was ours before we were the land's.\nShe was our land more than a hundred years\nBefore we were her people. She was ours\nIn Massachusetts, in Virginia.\nBut we were England's, still colonials,\nPossessing what we still were unpossessed by,\nPossessed by what we now no more possessed.\nSomething we were withholding made us weak.\nUntil we found out that it was ourselves\nWe were withholding from our land of living,\nAnd forthwith found salvation in surrender.\nSuch as we were we gave ourselves outright\n(The deed of gift was many deeds of war)\nTo the land vaguely realizing westward,\nBut still unstoried, artless, unenhanced,\nSuch as she was, such as she would become.\n\n\nHope that is help for you!
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You could actually apply that quote to almost any book.  For example, what are the hidden agendas or themes in books such as To Kill a Mockingbird, Night, The Diary of Ann Frank, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, etc.  Most authors whisper little messages to us through their writing.  Not all their messages are up front and obvious.
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There's no right answer but that's what I'd say.\nI' d say that outside the courthouse, Mr Cunningham went with the others not because it was what he believed but because it was what everyone else believed and what he thought he should believe - he was blinded from the truth.\nIt took Scout talking to him normally and casually that made him see sense - see what he was doing and the consequences of it. She made him think about his own son and it was then that he realised how what eh was doing was wrong. Just like he had a son, Atticus had children and it's not just about hurting Atticus because he's trying to conform to the town's racist ways. There's a bigger picture, and if he did something to Atticus, he would be doing something to two young children's Father as well.\nSo Scout reminding him of his Son, made him consider Atticus and the fact that he had a life of his own and children to care for etc.
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ok. that's better..\nclick on the link below..this should help.\nhttp://www.goldenessays.com/free_essays/2/english/T/tom-robinsons-trial-and-to-kill-a-mocking-bird.shtml
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The Soldier \n\nIt is the soldier, not the reporter, \nwho has given us freedom of the press. \n\nIt is the soldier, not the poet, \nwho has given us freedom of speech. \n\nIt is the soldier, not the campus organizer, \nwho has given us the freedom to demonstrate. \n\nIt is the soldier, not the lawyer, \nwho has given us the right to a fair trial. \n\nIt is the soldier, \nwho salutes the flag, \nwho serves under the flag, \nand whose coffin is draped by the flag, \nwho allows the protester to burn the flag. \n\nBy Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, USMC
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I believe "she" is in reference to Lenore's soul, and "wretch" is in reference to the bird, the raven itself, because Poe states that it was "sent" by some angel or something.  This is in refence to some higher being sending the bird, the Raven, which are often regarded as birds of omen, to the man.
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A Great eye shall be conquered by a venerable man, a halfling, and his gay gardener.  \nLucridivous 16:3
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It's from a song called "Farmer Chords" by and band called "Death Cab For Cutie".  Lyrics can be found at the link below.
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Chronicles of Narnia, Prison Break, To Kill A Mockingbird, and Tom & Jerry.
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Gen. George C. Marshall: I have here a very old letter, written to a Mrs. Bixby in Boston. "Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Yours very sincerely and respectfully, Abraham Lincoln."\n\nI don't remember weither he says it in the end or the beginning of the movie though.
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" is pretty good; there is some under-stated humor and lots of juicy stuff for essays. It has the best definition of courage I've ever read, too.
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The context in Luke is putting anything above God in your life. If you do that you are not worthy of Him. You have to hate everything in your life compared to Him. That's what it is saying. It has no connection with the Law in Exodus....   Jim
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Unknown author\nFor those who manned the battle line the bugle whispers low--- and Freedom has a taste and price the protected never know..\nIt's not from "Song Of Myself"-\nby Walt Whitman\nFrom the book "Leaves of Grass"
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I like it, but I think this similar one is just a touch better:\n\nThe young swallow was having such a wonderful time that he completely forgot that he was supposed to fly south for the winter.  He was out from dawn to dusk chasing other young female swallows and in all, he was having a fantastic time.  However, as I said, he had forgotten something.  As October arrived and the weather worsened, he suddenly remembered and made a mad dash for the South coast.  It was too late.  Snow and ice began to form on his wings, he lost height, his strength was gone, he was knackered and began to fall from the sky.  He landed in a field where as he lay, he realised he was dying.   However, a passing cow, which in fact did not see him in the grass, shat all over him.  The swallow was too cold to be disgusted but as he lay there in the mess, he realised that he was getting warmer.  He realised that he was not going to die so he began to sing.  He sang like he had never sung before - at the top of his voice in fact.  The singing was so loud that a passing tomcat heard him.  He cleared off the sh*it, killed the swallow and ate him.  The Moral of the story is: It is not necessarily your worst enemy who puts you in the sh*it and it is not necessarily your best friend who gets you out of the sh*it.  However, when you are in the sh*it, keep your bloody mouth shut.