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"No struggle, no progress" : Frederick Douglass and his proverbial rhetoric for civil rights / Wolfgang Mieder.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mieder, Wolfgang.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895--Oratory.
- Douglass, Frederick.
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
- Oratory.
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895--Quotations.
- Proverbs--Political aspects.
- Proverbs.
- Rhetoric--Political aspects.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- History.
- Enslaved persons.
- Social conditions.
- United States.
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895--Political and social views.
- Political and social views.
- Enslaved persons--United States--Social conditions--19th century--Quotations, maxims, etc.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century--Quotations, maxims, etc.
- African Americans.
- Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States.
- Rhetoric.
- Proverbs--Political aspects--United States.
- Proverbs--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Quotations.
- Physical Description:
- 532 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : P. Lang, [2001]
- Contents:
- Frederick Douglass and the Proverb 1
- "If you give a nigger an inch, he will take an ell" The promulgation of slavery through proverbs 4
- "The crushed worm may yet turn under the heel of the oppressor" Proverbs in the service of the abolition movement 17
- "There can be no peace to the wicked" Moral issues and the sermonic use of folk wisdom 28
- "Slavery seemed to me to have about as many lives as a cat" Animal metaphors as arguments against dehumanization 37
- "Give the negro a chance to stand on his own legs" Somatic expressions as verbal signs of human behavior 48
- "Is the ship of State sound, tight and free?" Maritime expressions as signs of freedom 57
- "All men are created equal" The proverbial call for liberty and equality 67
- "Be the architect of your own fortune" Proverbial jeremiads after the Civil War 76
- "Government of the people, by the people, and for the people" Proverbs and the fight for civil rights 86
- "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" The Golden Rule as the ultimate wisdom for equality 95.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0820455628
- OCLC:
- 45871259
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