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  1. Jul 2023
    1. The first sees to it that a favored few are helped and hopes that some of their prosperity will leak through, sift through, to labor, to the farmer, to the small businessman.

      The New Deal initially focused on the poor and unemployed but still had some aspects that left out farmers and African Americans. Specifically the AAA which left out tenant farmers and sharecroppers, and the Social Security act that left out domestic workers.

      Corbett, P.S, Janssen, V.J., Lund, J.M., Pfannestiel, J., Precht, J.,Vickery, P.,Waskiewicz, (2021). U.S. History

    2. I have made it clear that I believe we should eliminate expensive ceremonies and that we should set in motion at once, tonight, my friends, the necessary machinery for an adequate presentation of the issues to the electorate of the n

      He backed this up with action. Immediately after his inaugurations, he arrived at the White House to begin his work, passing on the rich tradition of inaugural parties.

      Corbett, P.S, Janssen, V.J., Lund, J.M., Pfannestiel, J., Precht, J.,Vickery, P.,Waskiewicz, (2021). U.S. History

    3. Just as one example, we know that a very hopeful and immediate means of relief, both for the unemployed and for agriculture, will come from a wide plan of converting of many millions of acres of marginal and unused land into timberland through reforestation.

      He would create the National Park Service and protected around 230 million acres of public land during his presidency.

      National Park Service FDR's Conservation Legacy Home of Franklin D Roosevelt National Historic Site https://www.nps.gov/articles/fdr-s-conservation-legacy.htm#:~:text=Theodore%20Roosevelt%20created%20the%20United,the%201906%20American%20Antiquities%20Act.

  2. Jun 2023
    1. Make up your minds to die, rather than bequeath a state of slavery to your posterity

      This is a common theme of mindset and commitment with the above piece by Henry Garnet as well. Be ready to die, it's better to live free and set the example of the commitment to freedom of a people.

    1. Having read with great pleasure a pamphlet, which you have lately published, on National Education, I dedicate this volume to you, the first dedication that I have ever written, to induce you to read it with attention; and, because I think that you will understand me, which I do not suppose many pert witlings will, who may ridicule the arguments they are unable to answer

      I wondered why she chose M. Talleyrand Perigord to write this to? Why not another person or politician? I can only find that she read his pamphlet on education and understood that he was a powerful politician that might agree (Sullen, 1990)

      Sulkin, Gail E. Rogers, "A rhetorical analysis of Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1990).

    2. If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot; and the love of mankind, from which an orderly train of virtues spring, can only be produced by considering the moral and civil interest of mankind; but the education and situation of woman, at present, shuts her out from such investigations.

      Both father AND mother must be educated for the betterment of society which starts as examples to children at home.

  3. May 2023
    1. Exod. XX. 1 3. Thou shalt not kill . Gal. I. 1 o. Do I seek to pleafe Men? if I pleafe Men, I should not be a Servant of CHRIST.

      Starting right out of the gates with biblical quotes to capture the heroic effort to save people from disease alongside the burden of others that might disagree.