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A Modest Proposal, by Dr. Jonathan Swift on 2009-12-07
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- For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland,
  
  from being a burden on their parents or country,
  
  and for making them beneficial to
  the publick.
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- - These mothers instead of being able to work for their honest
    livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in stroling to beg
    sustenance for their helpless infants who, as they grow up, either turn
    thieves for want of work, or leave their dear native country, to fight
    for the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes.
  - whoever
    could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children
    sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of
    the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.
  - a child just dropt from its dam, may be
    supported by her milk, for a solar year, with little other nourishment:
    at most not above the value of two shillings,
  - There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will
    prevent those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of
    women murdering their bastard children, alas! too frequent among us,
    sacrificing the poor innocent babes, I doubt, more to avoid the expence
    than the shame, which would move tears and pity in the most savage and
    inhuman breast
  - The question therefore is, How this number
    shall be reared, and provided for?
  - I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will
    not be liable to the least objection.
    
    I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in
    London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a
    most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted,
    baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a
    fricasie, or a ragoust.
  - I grant this food will be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for
    landlords, who, as they have already devoured most of the parents, seem
    to have the best title to the children.
  - therefore it will have one other collateral advantage, by lessening
    the number of Papists among us.
  - A very worthy person, a true lover of his country, and whose virtues
    I highly esteem, was lately pleased, in discoursing on this matter, to
    offer a refinement upon my scheme. He said, that many gentlemen of this
    kingdom,
  - my American
    acquaintance assured me from frequent experience, that their flesh was
    generally tough and lean, like that of our school-boys, by continual
    exercise, and their taste disagreeable
  - I have too long digressed, and therefore shall return to my subject. I
    think the advantages by the proposal which I have made are obvious and
    many, as well as of the highest importance.
  - I can think of no one objection, that will possibly be raised against
    this proposal, unless it should be urged, that the number of people will
    be thereby much lessened in the kingdom.
  - Therefore let no man talk to me of other
    expedients: Of taxing our absentees at five shillings a pound: Of using
    neither cloaths, nor houshold furniture, except what is of our
    own growth and manufacture: Of utterly rejecting the materials and
    instruments that promote foreign luxury: Of curing the expensiveness of
    pride, vanity, idleness, and gaming in our women: Of introducing a vein
    of parsimony, prudence and temperance: Of learning to love our
    country, wherein we differ even from Laplanders, and the inhabitants
    of Topinamboo: Of quitting our animosities and factions, nor acting any
    longer like the Jews, who were murdering one another at the very moment
    their city was taken: Of being a little cautious not to sell our country
    and consciences for nothing: Of teaching landlords to have at least one
    degree of mercy towards their tenants. Lastly, of putting a spirit of
    honesty, industry, and skill into our shop-keepers, who, if a resolution
    could now be taken to buy only our native goods, would immediately unite
    to cheat and exact upon us in the price, the measure, and the goodness,
    nor could ever yet be brought to make one fair proposal of just dealing,
    though often and earnestly invited to it.
  - although perhaps I could name a country, which
    would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.
  - I profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that I have not the least
    personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having
    no other motive than the publick good of my country, by advancing
    our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some
    pleasure to the rich. I have no children, by which I can propose to
    get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past
    child-bearing.
Google Wave on 2009-11-18
Teacher Magazine: Those Who Teach, Don't Need to Talk on 2009-11-14
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  This article isn’t about lemons. It’s about lemonade.
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Letter from Birmingham Jail - Full text on 2009-10-25
- AUTHOR'S NOTE: This response to a published statement
  by eight fellow clergymen from Alabama (Bishop C. C. J. Carpenter, Bishop
  Joseph A. Durick, Rabbi Hilton L. Grafman, Bishop Paul Hardin, Bishop
  Holan B. Harmon, the Reverend George M. Murray. the Reverend Edward V.
  Ramage and the Reverend Earl Stallings) was composed under somewhat constricting
  circumstance. Begun on the margins of the newspaper in which the statement
  appeared while I was in jail, the letter was continued on scraps of writing
  paper supplied by a friendly Negro trusty, and concluded on a pad my attorneys
  were eventually permitted to leave me. Although the text remains in substance
  unaltered, I have indulged in the author's prerogative of polishing it
  for publication.
  
  LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL
  
  April 16, 1963
- I came across your
  recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely."
  - Susan Davis on 2009-10-25
    
    Resonse to comments by others.
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- - I think I should indicate why I am here In Birmingham, since you have been
    influenced by the view which argues against "outsiders coming in."
  - But more basically, I am in Birmingham because injustice is here.
  - I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about
    what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice
    everywhere
  - I am sure that none
    of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social
    analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying
    causes.
  - On the basis of these conditions, Negro leaders sought to negotiate
    with the city fathers. But the latter consistently refused to engage in
    good-faith negotiation.
  - As in so many past experiences, our hopes had been blasted, and the
    shadow of deep disappointment settled upon us. We had no alternative except
    to prepare for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies
    as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and the
    national community.
  - You are quite right in calling, for
    negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent
    direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension
    that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to
    confront the issue.
  - I have hope that Mr. Boutwell
    will be reasonable enough to see the futility of massive resistance to
    desegregation. But he will not see this without pressure from devotees
    of civil rights.
    Susan Davis on 2009-10-25
    
    Future effects? Hoped for effects?
  - We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily
    given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
  - But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and
    fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you
    have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers
    and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro
    brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an
    affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your
    speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter
    why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised
    on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that
    Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority
    beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort
    her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people;
    when you have to concoct an answer for a five-year-old son who is asking:
    "Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?"; when you take
    a cross-country drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night
    in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will
    accept you; when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs
    reading "white" and "colored"; when your first name becomes "nigger,"
    your middle name becomes "boy" (however old you are) and your last name
    becomes "John," and your wife and mother are never given the respected
    title "Mrs."; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the
    fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite
    knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and outer
    resentments; when you go forever fighting a degenerating sense of "nobodiness"
    then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait.
  - break laws.
    This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we
  - The answer lies in the fact that
    there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to
    advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility
    to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey
    unjust laws.
  - hus it is that I can urge men to obey the 1954 decision of the Supreme
    Court, for it is morally right; and I can urge them to disobey segregation
    ordinances, for they are morally wrong.
  - Who can say that the legislature
    of Alabama which set up that state's segregation laws was democratically
    elected?
  - I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him
    is unjust and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order
    to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality
    expressing the highest respect for law.
  - two honest confessions
  - I had hoped that the white moderate would understand
    that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase of the transition
    from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted
    his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men
    will respect the dignity and worth of human personality.
  - In your statement you assert that our actions, even though peaceful,
    must be condemned because they precipitate violence. But is this a logical
    assertion?
  - If this philosophy had not emerged, by now many streets of the South
    would, I am convinced, be flowing with blood.
  - Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom
    eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American
    Negro.
  - If his
    repressed emotions are not released in nonviolent ways, they will seek
    expression through violence; this is not a threat but a fact of history.
  - Par from being disturbed by the presence of the church,
    the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's
    silent and often even vocal sanction of things as they are.
  - If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition
    we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred
    heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our
    echoing demands.
  - One day the South will recognize
    its real heroes.
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