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American Dream
In this day and age, so many tear at the foundations of America. They do so with an almost willful ignorance of what came before and what’s happened since. There is an insistence that perfection be from the beginning when … Continue reading
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Tagged American, Children, Confuse, Critic, Crumble, Dream, Dystopia, Family, Foundation, Freedom, Gettysburg, God Given, Hues, Human Condition, Humble Beginning, Ignorance, Judge, Mankind, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Reparations, Revolution, Shoes, Shoulder, Slavery, Tear, Today, Understanding
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Memory Inspires the Future
Slavery is wrong. It was wrong in the past. It is wrong in the present. It’s a wrong that will go into our future. That is until we stand together to vanquish this evil. I cannot stress enough that the … Continue reading
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Tagged Apology, Atrocity, Better, Consequence, Crimes Against Humity, Cultural Amnesia, Dignity, Dwell, Equa;ity, Evade, Forgive, France, Fratenrity, Free, Freedom, Future, Grievance, Guadaloupe, History, Humanism, Inspire, Isle, Legacy, Les Colons, Memory, Moving Forward, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reconciliation, Sidestep, Slavery, Slight, Stain, Sugar Factory
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A Study On Passover
Some have accused me of being a fool for God…. To them, I reply. Why yes, thank you, I am… but I am your fool. Dedicated to God and to serving my fellow humanity. It matters not how little … Continue reading
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Tagged Day, Destination, Donkey, Egypt, Evening, Family, Feast, God, History, Hosanna, King of Kings, Legacy, Memory, Messiah, Mount Olive, Pages, Palm Leaves, Palm Sunday, Passover, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prophecy, Proverb, Sacred, Sermon on the Mount, Slavery, Study, Talk, Tribulation, Unfold, Unleavened Bread, Walk
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Truth Is Coming
A good case might be made that we are possibly living in the end times with the attacks on Christianity, the genocide committed against the unborn, and so many other countless atrocities including groups like ISIS. I was at church … Continue reading
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Tagged Alter, Bold, Christianity, Coming, Deploy, Die For, End Times, Forgive, Gatitude, Genocide, God, Gospel, Hands, History, Holy, ISIS, Joy, Liturgical Dance, Mercy, Peace, Photograph, Platitude, Poem, Poetry, Power, Praise, Prayer, Preach, Relevation, Rest, Revelations, Rhetoric, Rising, Sermon, Shout, Slavery, Stand, Steady, Strength In the Blood, Strong, Talk, Thought, Truth, Walk, Word of God, World, Written
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First Principles: American Colonies Had Long Been Stopped From Abolishing Slavery Or Even Limiting It By Great Britain
“…. (A) disposition to abolish slavery prevails in North America, that many of Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and that even the Virginia Assembly have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation … Continue reading
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Tagged Abolish, Benjamin Franklin, Disposition, First Principles, King, Law, Liberty, North America, Pennsylvania, Petition, Repeal, Slavery, Slaves, Virginia
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First Principles: Slavery Was Introduced Into United States By England and Prevented From Abolishing It During Colonial Days
“He [King George III] has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another … Continue reading
First Principles: Justice, Humanity and Christianity Demand the End of All Slavery
“Justice and humanity require it [the end of slavery] – Christianity commands it. Let every benevolent . . . pray for the glorious period when the last slave who fights for freedom shall be restored to the possession of that … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, End, First Principles, Freedom, Humanity, Justice, Noah Webster, Pray, Right, Slavery
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First Principles: It is Inconsistent, Unjust and Impious To Fight And Pray for Freedom While Keeping Others In Slavery
“That men should pray and fight for their own freedom and yet keep others in slavery is certainly acting a very inconsistent, as well as unjust and perhaps impious, part.” – John Jay, Reference The Life and Times of John … Continue reading
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Tagged Fight, First Principles, Freedom, Impious, Incosistent, John Jay, Me, Others, Pray, Slavery, Unjust
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First Principles: Every Sensible Person Chooses Liberty
“No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.” – Alexander Hamilton (1774)
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Choice, First Principles, Free, Hesitation, Mankind, Sanity, Slavery
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First Principles: The Corruption of A People Make It Ripe For Destruction
“Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the … Continue reading
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Tagged Certain, Constitution, Corruption, Destruction, First Principles, Government, Ineffectual, John Witherspoon, Profiligacy, Slavery, The People
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 