We are all bound up together

I stood within the shadow of my home,
a great sorrow had fallen upon my life.

You speak here of rights.
I speak of wrongs.
Are there not wrongs to be righted?

I feel I am something of a novice
upon this platform.

We are all bound up together
in one great bundle of humanity.

Society cannot neglect the enlightenment
of any class of its members.

Society cannot trample
on the weakest and feeblest of its members
without receiving

–the curse of its own soul.

But I don’t want to have to fight all the time.

The title and lines this week are lifted from a speech delivered by poet, teacher,
novelist and abolitionist Frances Harper on 10 May 1866 in New York.

Dream intentionally - while you're awake