Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. Quotes

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O God, give me words to make my dream-children live.

Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.

Why do men sneer when I arise
And stand in their councils,
And look them eye to eye,
And speak their tongue?
Is it because I am black?

Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.

And from their trembling lips shall swell
A song of hope the world can understand.
All this to them shall be a glorious sign,
A glimmer of that resurrection morn,
When age-long Faith crowned with a grace benign
Shall rise and from their brows cast down the thorn
Of prejudice. E'en though through blood it be,
There breaks this day their dawn of Liberty.

Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.

Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.

Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.

Born: September 2, 1895

Died: February 3, 1919 (aged 23)

Bio: Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. was an American playwright, author and poet from Louisville, Kentucky most remembered for his posthumously published one-act play On The Fields of France in addition to numerous volumes of poetry.

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