Meridel Le Sueur - People Quotes

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The people always know that some of the grain will be good, some of the crop will be saved, some will return and bear the strength of the kernel, that from the bloodiest year some survive to outfox the frost.

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A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.

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Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.

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You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.

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An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.

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No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.

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The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed-upon myths of its conquerors.

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My prairie people are my home
Bird I return flying to their breasts.

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