A Being, erect upon two legs, and bearing all the outward semblance of a man, and not of a monster.
A Being, erect upon two legs, and bearing all the outward semblance of a man, and not of a monster.
To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.
It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
The Hills erect their Purple Heads
The Rivers lean to see
Yet Man has not of all the Throng
A Curiosity.
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other.
The closer Iraq approaches freedom and democracy, the more impediments and barriers the terrorists will erect.
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
But what if better counsels might erect Our minds and teach us to cast off this yoke Will ye submit your necks, and choose to bend The supple knee.
Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
The Peking man was a thinking being, standing erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice Age.
He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
America experiences a new birth of freedom in her sons and daughters she incarnates the spirit of her martyred chief. Their loyalty is repledged their devotion renewed to the work He left unfinished. My heart throbs anew in the hope that inspired by the example of Lincoln, imbued with the spirit of Christ, they will cast down the last barrier to perfect freedom. And I with my brother of blackest hue possessing at last my rightful heritage and holding my head erect, may stand beside the Saxon a Negro and yet a man.
Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
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