No Struggle, No Progress
Frederick Douglass and His Proverbial Rhetoric for Civil Rights
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) is a giant among civil rights leaders of the United States. With words and deeds he fought against slavery and championed civil rights for all citizens, regardless of race, gender, or creed. His very own proverbial motto, If there is no struggle, there is no progress, expresses his moral commitment to free the slaves and to fight for human rights. Much of his rhetorical prowess is based on proverbial language. As an abolitionist, he cites proverbs to argue against slavery. He also employs this Biblical and folk wisdom in his call for liberty and equality, formulating impressive proverbial jeremiads after the Civ…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8204-5562-4
- EAN: 9780820455624
- Produktnummer: 19041390
- Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 531 S.
- Masse: H16.2 cm x B23.7 cm x D3.7 cm 1'002 g
- Gewicht: 1002
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
The Author: Wolfgang Mieder is Professor of German and Folklore at the University of Vermont. Besides editing Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship, he is author or co-author of numerous other books on proverbs, including A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1992); Proverbs Are Never out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age (1993); Wise Words: Essays on the Proverb (1994); The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill (1995); Proverbs in World Literature: A Bibliography (1996); The Proverbial Harry S. Truman (1997); The Politics of Proverbs: From Traditional Wisdom to Proverbial Stereotypes (1997); Twisted Wisdom: Modern Anti-Proverbs (1999); Proverb Iconography: An International Bibliography (1999); and The Proverbial Abraham Lincoln (2000).
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