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Round Up The Usual Subjects Thoughts On Just About Everything

Every seven minutes, every day, someone in the Twitter world tweets a Robert Brault quote. The author, a free-lance writer for forty years, has appeared in publications and venues ranging from “Reader’s Digest” to the CBS TV series “Criminal Minds” to the Ivory soap wrapper. In this, the first published collection of his writings, he draws from his popular internet blog “A Robert Brault Reader” to offer original thoughts on a basketful of familiar subjects. So kick up your feet, pour yourself a cup, and discover the author who says of himself, “I make no claim to fame, since I figure it would end up in small claims court, anyway.”

A new book from one of my favorite authors who I quote often on my blog.  I’m ordering mine today!   Rick

Round Up The Usual Subjects Thoughts On Just About Everything

Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form jazz poetry.

On Civil Rights

“I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
“Eat in the kitchen,”
Then.

Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—

I, too, am America.” 

Americans of every race and color have died in battle to protect our freedom. Americans of every race and color have worked to build a nation of widening opportunities. Now our generation of Americans has been called on to continue the unending search for justice within our own borders. We believe that all men are created equal. Yet many are denied equal treatment. We believe that all men have certain unalienable rights. Yet many Americans do not enjoy those rights. We believe that all men are entitled to the blessings of liberty. Yet millions are being deprived of those blessings—not because of their own failures, but because of the color of their skin. The reasons are deeply imbedded in history and tradition and the nature of man. We can understand—without rancor or hatred—how this all happened. But it cannot continue. Our Constitution, the foundation of our Republic, forbids it. The principles of our freedom forbid it. Morality forbids it.

President Lyndon B. Johnson

On Civil Rights