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...Bois,* one of the founders of the American Negro Academy, set up a narrowly based protest group of Negro elite known as the Niagara Movement (its first meeting was held near Niagara Falls in 1905). Declared Du Bois: "We claim for ourselves every right that belongs to a freeborn American-political, civil and social-and until we get these rights, we will never cease to protest and assail the ears of America with...
...Prime Minister's nose is keeping to the right. I doubt whether even a big Tory majority could cause such a change. Maybe the picture shows a narrow, one-way street, and the cyclists are merely Labor voters walking their machines against the traffic to demonstrate that freeborn Britons can go where they darn well please in their own country...
...founded the Niagara Movement and in the following year at Harpers Ferry drafted resolutions which proclaimed, among other things: "We will not be satisfied to take one jot or tittle less than our full manhood rights. We claim for ourselves every single right that belongs to a freeborn American, political, civil and social; and until we get these rights we will never cease to protest and to assail the ears of America...
...could have all you wanted. We have cows, we have hogs and everything . . . Arlie, you know that this is the only free country they is. You know that you can't stay over there and be free, and you know well that you're a freeborn American. And there's no place over there for you. And you better come home, Arlie, and take your friends and your family and your loved ones because, Arlie, you know that we all love you. You're the same boy now as you was when you left...
Back in the days of the horse & buggy, a man who waved his arms while negotiating turns in the State of Maine wouldn't necessarily have been yanked off to the booby hatch. A freeborn Republican American citizen had a right to act like a danged fool if he wanted to, as long as he didn't damage property. But since it would have been a waste of motion, with no sense to it, nobody did it. Horse knew where he was going anyhow, even if some of the drivers didn...