Unit 3: Selection Vocabulary 2

By the time Harriet Ross was six years old, she had unconsciously absorbed many kinds of knowledge, almost with the air she breathed.

By the time Harriet Ross was six years old, she had unconsciously absorbed many kinds of knowledge, almost with the air she breathed.

At the same time, someone had taught her where to look for the North Star, the star that stayed constant, not rising in the east and setting in the west as the other stars appeared to do; and told her that anyone walking toward the North could use that star as a guide.

All through the plantation, from the Big House to the stables, to the fields, he had a reputation for absolute honesty.

Each slave received eight pounds of pickled pork or its equivalent in fish, one bushel of Indian meal (corn meal), one pint of salt.

The folks were full of misery, then. Got sick with the up and down of the sea.

She trembled to be so hard worked and scorned.

The slaves labored in the fields from sunup to sundown.

That babe started up bawling too loud.

Sarah couldn’t stop to feed it. Couldn’t stop to soothe and quiet it down.

She had no heart to croon to it.

And I feel that notwithstanding the past that my presence here is one additional bit of evidence that the American Dream need not forever be deferred.

Now that I have this grand distinction, what in the world am I supposed to say?

We are attempting to fulfill our national purpose, to create and sustain a society in which all of us are equal.

This is the question which must be answered in 1976: Are we to be one people bound together by common spirit, sharing in a common endeavor; or will we become a divided nation?

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community.