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"Bread and Roses" is a political slogan as well as the name of an associated poem and song. It originated in a speech given by American women's suffrage activist Helen Todd; a line in that speech about "bread for all, and roses too" [1] inspired the title of the poem Bread and Roses by James Oppenheim. [2]
Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem used on the coat of arms of Massachusetts. Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem is a Latin passage and the official motto of the U.S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
"If We Must Die" is a poem by Jamaican-American writer Claude McKay (1890–1948) published in the July 1919 issue of The Liberator magazine. McKay wrote the poem in response to mob attacks by white Americans upon African-American communities during the Red Summer. The poem does not specifically reference any group of people, and has been used ...
The last line of the prepared address echoes the second and third lines of the poem. [2] [3] The same lines were also used in the lyrics of Pink Floyd's "The Gunner's Dream" (1983, on The Final Cut) [4] and Al Stewart's "Somewhere in England 1915" (2005, on A Beach Full of Shells). The poem is read in its entirety in films Oh!
There are plenty of reasons young recruits should join the military, Paschall said -- the discipline and the sense of loyalty and duty in military life are all selling points he brings up. But mainly, he likes the idea of being a mentor. "As a recruiter, when we meet these young men and women, we take a personal bond to them," he added.
The guillotine on Peers shall wait; And Knights shall hang in garters. Those Despots long have trode us down, And Judges are their engines: Such wretched minions of a Crown Demand the people's vengeance! To-day 'tis theirs. To-morrow we Shall don the Cap of Libertie! The Golden Age we'll then revive: Each man will be a brother; In harmony we ...
Since a lot of the state poems I’d read had a similar tone, I thought I’d try something different — in, of course, the seriocomic mode. Unofficial Missouri Poem You won’t find 76 trombones
"Old Ironsides" is a poem written by American writer Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on September 16, 1830, as a tribute to the 18th-century USS Constitution. The poem was one reason that the frigate was saved from being decommissioned, and it is now the oldest commissioned ship in the world that is still afloat.