Unit 3: Selection Vocabulary 4

He is the prolific constituter of manners, morals, religions and governments.

This natural reverence for all that is great in man, and this tendency to deify and worship him, though natural and the source of man's elevation, has not always shown itself wise but has often shown itself far otherwise than wise.

That there is, in more respects than one, something like a solecism in this title, I freely admit. Properly speaking, there are in the world no such men as self-made men.

In fact they are the men who are not brought up but who are obliged to come up, not only without the voluntary assistance or friendly co-operation of society, but often in open and derisive defiance of all the efforts of society and the tendency of circumstances to repress, retard and keep them down.

It dignifies labor, honors application, lessens pain and depression, dispels gloom from the brow of the destitute and weariness from the heart of him about to faint, and enables man to take hold of the roughest and flintiest hardships incident to the battle of life, with a lighter heart, with higher hopes and a larger courage.

But it is a land of extremes and remarkable contrasts. The whites enjoy what may well be the highest standard of living in the world, whilst Africans live in poverty and misery.

The highest-paid and the most prosperous section of urban African life is in Johannesburg.

Poverty goes hand in hand with malnutrition and disease. The incidence of malnutrition and deficiency diseases is very high amongst Africans.

As far as Africans are concerned, both these avenues of advancement are deliberately curtailed by legislation.

I ask the Court to remember that the present Government has always sought to hamper Africans in their search for education.

White supremacy implies black inferiority.

Sure, the bigger child has the physical strength to do what he wants, but should that power enable him to achieve his goals by taking advantage of others?

How can one depend only on a tactic that seeks to persuade those with power and privilege to reconcile their actions with the very ideals—such as freedom and justice—that they are violating or ignoring?

One way that peaceful actions can help achieve the goals of a movement is by highlighting the injustice they seek to address, namely through nonviolent direct action.

In the end, their actions did more good than they anticipated: not only did they protect civil rights activists from violence, but they also empowered more local African Americans to defend themselves against white violence and eventually compelled the federal government to quell the violence perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan.

Winston Churchill, who would later lead Great Britain in its conflict with Germany, quickly recognized the miscalculation in their actions; to him, the countries’ imperilment was a fait accompli.

Nations, groups, and individuals the world over have established relationships based on varying degrees of power, freedom, and privilege. They are constantly in flux, always becoming more and more complex.

His head was so poised that his eye swept easily the vast level land to the eastern horizon line.

At length the song drops into a closing cadence, and the little woman, clad in beaded deerskin, sits down beside the elder one.

"Hähob!" exclaimed the mother, with a rising inflection, implying by the expletive that her child's buoyant spirit be not weighted with a denial.

"Hähob!" exclaimed the mother, with a rising inflection, implying by the expletive that her child's buoyant spirit be not weighted with a denial.

Amid this circular dance arena stands a prisoner bound to a post, haggard with shame and sorrow. He hangs his disheveled head.

The singers raise their voices in unison.