Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Some African leaders actually dare to suggest that democracy is a concept alien to traditional African society. This is one of the most impudent political blasphemies I can think of.
Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.
As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.
Intimidation, harassment and violence have no place in a democracy.
You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.
You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.
How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it.
As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.
Democracy is the only civilized way to govern a country.
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