Posted by Lou Pilder on July 6, 2002, at 13:27:31
In reply to Re: Poster in the hands of an angry group. Part 6, posted by Lou Pilder on July 6, 2002, at 8:09:46
Group,
The Principal, who was a minority, began to address the student body and the Faculty. This is what I remember him saying.
"Fellow Americans, teachers and students, pardon me, for why am I speaking here today? Are the great principles of freedom and American justice extended to us?
If I could give you an affirmative answer, my task would be light and my burden would be easy. The chains of slavery have been torn from the limbs of our fathers and their fathers. But in a school, we have to overcome the pressures of our being crowded together and compelled to endure 180 days this year , 6 hours a day, and give up our own desires because we are in a great multitude of people set forth to achieve a task that has no reward, no benifits, untill you get to the end of the road. While we are on the road to feedom from ignorance, we must endure the sacrifice of our own liberty to insure the success of us all. We can not do whatever we want, we must abide by a charter of expectations that overrule our own compulsions. We must overcome ourselves and allow all people here to have the opportunity to learn."
Next, I will continue with his speech.
Lou
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