Comments on: page 123 meme http://michaeljfaris.com/blog/2008/02/page-123-meme/ rhetorics, compositions, technologies, literacies, sexualities Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:32:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sara Jameson http://michaeljfaris.com/blog/2008/02/page-123-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-568 Sara Jameson Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:47:53 +0000 http://oregonstate.edu/~farism/blog/?p=653#comment-568 "When we think of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Ida Buelle Wells-Barnett, A. Philip Randolph, Marcus Garvey, Ella Baker, James Baldwin, and so many nameless and anonymous ones, we cannot but be moved by their standards of vision and courage. They are wind at one's back. The recovery of a tradition always begins at the existential level, with the experience of what it is to be human under a specific set of circumstances and conditions." From Cornel West "The Moral Obligations of Living in a Democratic Society" from _The Good Citizen_, 1999. Reprinted in _Open Questions: Readings for Critical Thinking and Writing_, by Chris Anderson and Lex Runciman, Boston: Bedford, 2005. 123. “When we think of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Ida Buelle Wells-Barnett, A. Philip Randolph, Marcus Garvey, Ella Baker, James Baldwin, and so many nameless and anonymous ones, we cannot but be moved by their standards of vision and courage. They are wind at one’s back. The recovery of a tradition always begins at the existential level, with the experience of what it is to be human under a specific set of circumstances and conditions.”

From Cornel West “The Moral Obligations of Living in a Democratic Society” from _The Good Citizen_, 1999. Reprinted in _Open Questions: Readings for Critical Thinking and Writing_, by Chris Anderson and Lex Runciman, Boston: Bedford, 2005. 123.

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