| Robert Thomas Kerlin - 1920 - 214 str.
...live in God by grace. Rise! young Negro — rise! — The Praiseworthy Muse (Norfolk). If We Must Die! If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die,... | |
| Benjamin Brawley - 1921 - 448 str.
...Perhaps nothing, however, better summed up the new spirit than the following sonnet by Claude McKay: If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die,... | |
| Benjamin Brawley - 1921 - 474 str.
...brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack Pressed to the wall, dying, but—fighting back! 5. The Widening Problem In view of the world war and the important part taken... | |
| Chicago Commission on Race Relations - 1922 - 866 str.
...republished in the Messenger and several other periodicals, carries this same idea: IF WE MUST DIE If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While around us bark the mad and hungry dogs Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die... | |
| James Weldon Johnson - 1922 - 274 str.
...little lads, lynchers that were to be, Danced round the dreadful thing in fiendish glee. IF WE MUST DIE If we must die — let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we. must die... | |
| Frederick German Detweiler - 1922 - 296 str.
...strongly expressed. It is the Messenger that publishes Claude McKay's "If We Must Die" (September, 1919): If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die,... | |
| Frederick German Detweiler - 1922 - 296 str.
...brave, And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow! What though before us lies the open grave ? Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but — fighting back! The Messenger attacks all Negroes who are less radical than itself, including Kelly Miller, Emmett... | |
| Louis Untermeyer - 1923 - 462 str.
...White Fiends," and this significant outcry, written during an epidemic of race riots : IF WE MUST DIE If we must die — let it not be like hogs, Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die... | |
| 1969 - 648 str.
...him the necessity of defiance and struggle if he is to escape exploitation. Л defiant poet has said: Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but — fighting back! VERA FULTON. Slave Songs of the United States. Edited by William Francis Allen, Charles Packard Ware,... | |
| Willis Duke Weatherford - 1924 - 498 str.
...will come out, back to your world of tears, A stronger soul within a finer frame. IF WE MUST DIE • If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die,... | |
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