girds
- to prepare oneself for action
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In brief, it is the business of institutions to teach its students how to light up their lives and make them the mental, moral, social, and spiritual lights of the world.
She emphasizes education to teach people not just their own culture, but also to teach people to grow as people.
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t seems quite fit to think what to do with the light that we get from books, from teachers and from good influence day by day.
Emphasis on education
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Get your rights—but with all your getting—get right.”
Pretty much summarizes the message of the speech. Fight for social rights, but also cultivate morality and spirituality within yourself, so that you can also be right with yourself.
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forbearance
- a refraining from the enforcement of something
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panoplied
- a magnificent or impressive array
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paralytic
- Of, relating to or resembling paralysis
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ransom
- to deliver especially from sin or its penalty
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impetus
- a driving force
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I believe it is the Negro’s sacred duty to spiritualize American life and popularize his own color instead of worshiping the color (or lack of color) of another race.
Burroughs is pushing for black people to learn about their own culture and to have pride in their own culture (kind of like someone else that I remember from World History, although I do not remember what his name was..................)
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The tragedy in this problem-solving enterprise is that the Negro is not being taught the tremendous achieving power of his virtues. He is not being taught to glorify what he is.
Burroughs is pushing for black people to enter the stage as their own, with their own culture and beliefs. She's pushing for this because it isn't being taught anywhere, pointing at the education system for change.
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Furthermore, it will profit the Negro nothing to enter into ungodly competition for material possessions when he has gifts of greater value. The most valuable contribution which he can make to American civilization must be made out of his spiritual endowment.
She believes that the most important thing that black people can do currently is to contribute to America's spiritual side, so that the country can 'dispense justice'
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The Anglo-Saxon, on his own nerve, initiative, and inventions has stopped riding and gone to flying. The Negro has no plane, but he can soar in spirit. That is what the Anglo-Saxon did first. That is how he got the plane.
She believes that the movement should focus more on the moral, spiritual and logical side of the person to advance the movement, rather than focusing on physical objects.
This is due to the fact that white people have had almost 1000 more years to get ahead in material possessions, which would be nearly impossible to catch up to. Therefore, she wants fight to go in a different angle.
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Complete absorption of thought, time, and strength to the acquisition of material things spells moral death and spiritual death to any race.
The base of this next fundamental belief is the idea that the complete focus on material possessions will doom any civilization.
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I said, in an effort to help her recover, “persons of the same race are not necessarily social equals. They must have the same or similar personal tastes, natural affinity or attraction. There are whites who are not social equals of other whites. Their individual and personal attitudes, likes and dislikes are poles apart.
Burrough's perspective on social equality is that social equals are not based on any sort of categorization (like race, ethnicity, gender, etc) but rather based on personal qualities like tastes and interests
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