Opportunity, Volumes 3-4National Urban League, 1923 - African Americans |
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Page 233 - WE have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Page 142 - Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That Life is ever lord of Death And Love can never lose its own...
Page 180 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
Page 174 - Let me live In a house by the side of the road And be a friend to man.
Page 179 - But deem not this man useless.— Statesmen ye Who are so restless in your wisdom, ye Who have a broom still ready in your hands To rid the world of nuisances...
Page 139 - DRONING a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, I heard a Negro play. Down on Lenox Avenue the other night By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light He did a lazy sway. . . . He did a lazy sway. . . . To the tune of those Weary Blues.
Page 20 - The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, ! For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Page 180 - THE EARTH is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
Page 146 - I will not bear His cross upon my back; He only seeks to place it there Because my skin is black." But He was dying for a dream, And He was very meek, And in His eyes there shone a gleam Men journey far to seek. It was Himself my pity bought; I did for Christ alone What all of Rome could not have wrought With bruise of lash or stone.
Page 142 - Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary ! that never was it known that any one who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, and sought thy intercession, was left unaided. Inspired with this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my mother ! To thee I come; before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O mother of the Word incarnate ! despise not my petitions, but, in thy mercy, hear and answer me.