Unit 2: Vocabulary from Readings 3

This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.

We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality; we can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities; we cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one...

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

It is a dream deeply rooted in the American meaning of its creed, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

With this faith we shall be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.

That spiritual and physical oneness we all share with this common homeland explains the depth of the pain we all carried in our hearts as we saw our country tear itself apart in terrible conflict, and as we saw it spurned, outlawed and isolated by the peoples of the world, precisely because it has become the universal base of the pernicious ideology and practice of racism and racial oppression.

The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

We enter into a covenant that we shall build the society in which all South Africans, both black and white, will be able to walk tall, without any fear in their hearts, assured of their inalienable right to human dignity—a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.

As a token of its commitment to the renewal of our country, the new Interim Government of National Unity will, as a matter of urgency, address the issue of amnesty for various categories of our people who are currently serving terms of imprisonment.

“The animals we are finding now are emaciated and sick and lonely, but we are still finding them alive,” says Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States.

It’s become a small-scale version of the hurricane diaspora that displaced more than one million people in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.

About 80 animals were so aggressive or so close to death when they were rescued that they were euthanized, Pacelle says.

Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They’re every writer’s rite of passage.

Here are some potential impediments for you to forget about:
First forget inspiration.

But stubbornness, the refusal to change unproductive behavior or to revise unsalable work can be lethal to your writing hopes.