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| Source | ID | Link |
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| GoodReads | 55975877 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55975877 |
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Description
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters." Frederick Douglass, 1857 (intro page)
"This collection constitutes a Rhetoric of Racial Revolt in the sense that “rhetoric” is concerned with persuasion. The speakers represented here sought, in the ways that were available to them, to persuade their audiences to a mature, dignified, humane type of revolt. Their specific audiences were mostly Negro, but the speeches are significant to all men, white and black. It is a “racial revolt” only in the sense that eventually color is a distinction that must give way to the unifying concept of the human race. It is a “revolt” only in the sense of this change in concept. Such changes can erupt into physical violence, but these orators advocate a revolt of valor, restraint, fierce control, dignity, and devotion to a seeking of identity as men, nothing more."
"This collection constitutes a Rhetoric of Racial Revolt in the sense that “rhetoric” is concerned with persuasion. The speakers represented here sought, in the ways that were available to them, to persuade their audiences to a mature, dignified, humane type of revolt. Their specific audiences were mostly Negro, but the speeches are significant to all men, white and black. It is a “racial revolt” only in the sense that eventually color is a distinction that must give way to the unifying concept of the human race. It is a “revolt” only in the sense of this change in concept. Such changes can erupt into physical violence, but these orators advocate a revolt of valor, restraint, fierce control, dignity, and devotion to a seeking of identity as men, nothing more."