Frederick Douglass High School - Survey Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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OUR AMERICAN l 'lERlTAGE GRACE v JACKSON Freedom ns much un our mlnds these turbu lent days One by one around the world the lights of llberty are gradually fluckerung and golng out quenched by a ruthless tyranny and we have come to look at our own brnght burnnng torch wnth new respect and fervent love There has come to us a realuzatlon that thus beautiful thang thus freedom was bought for us and everyone should now be wllllng to pay a heavy price to keep It Our forefathers have bestowed upon us those unnumerable :deals of freedom of the press freedom of speech freedom of relngnon and popular self government government of the people by the people and for the people There ns no country better adapted to realnze these hugh :deals than Ameruca one nation that IS nnduvxsuble wnth lnberty and gus tnce for all We can t and we won t let down Q now for our heroes obstlnacy tenacity anc love of freedom are In our munds Truumphung over everylcatastrophe of man we the lnvnng representatlves of an unbroken lane have battled out of the dark prehustorlc forests of Europe down through countless ages to a free America Liberty prevanls as that last unassanlable fortress and stronghold of man No one can deny the fact that he would rather seek free dom of death than to yneld to the brutal slav ery of force Consequently nn these hours of stress Americans fnght proudly to preserve that tra dltuon and ln the end nf there IS a failure vlc tory shall Ile wlth the dead who have re spected the American herutage wlth efforts for nts conservatlon and not with the llvlng who have fought agaunst thus herntage X Ex OF Tl lEE WE SING FREEDOM MURIEL WATERS How would you luke to be told what language to speak what church to attend what to print nn our newspapers and things of the luke? Would you luke ut? Of course not' We In America today enjoy the above pruvu leges and pay lnttle or no attentuon to It Our forefathers struggled and fought dnlugently to secure those unaluenable rights which const: tute our democracy Freedom IS essential to every natnon When a country corrupts wnthln It IS bound to col lapse and cause certaln dusturbances wnthout ln order to establish a strong central govern ment nt IS necessary for the nnhabltants to ll thunk freely so as to partucupate nntelllgently nn the government spread democratlc :deals through the press be at ease always and brxng about a general harmony Practnces of democracy should flrst begun and orlgnnate In the home If thus us done t as likely to transfer and branch out In the schools churches clubs and other organlza tions We as Amerucans sung of the land of the free and the home of the brave Let us then be conscuous of thus vltal problem that as fac :ng us and flght wath the help of God to mam tam that one potent solace to man freedom . , . , . . . ' , 1 1 5 . , ' 1 1 1 1 ' I I ' - I 1 1 1 1 I I I l l - 1 1 1 I ' l . I - I , - I I . 1 1 ' ' ' - Q... .,g.-1- .....:,: - . X 'Z : Nc X Q , X - A sic N Q N X X5 T I I I - . . . , ' 1 . . , I ' 1 1 ' 1 - . I i .

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Messrs. Harris cmd Mitchell instruct o closs in oeronoutics