Frank Loesser (1910–1969) American songwriter
The Ballad of Rodger Young http://www.wegrokit.com/shines.htm
Psalm 117.
1710s, "Our God, our help in ages past" (1719)
Frank Loesser (1910–1969) American songwriter
The Ballad of Rodger Young http://www.wegrokit.com/shines.htm
John Pierpont (1785–1866) American writer
Every Place a Temple, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "This is that incense of the heart / Whose fragrance smells to heaven" Nathaniel Cotton, The Fireside, stanza 11.
Isaac Watts (1674–1748) English hymnwriter, theologian and logician
Source: Attributed from postum publications, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 520.
Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) former Palestinian President, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
In his speech "The Impending Total Collapse of Israel" at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden, January 30, 1996 as quoted in “The Legacy of Islamic AntiSemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History”, by Andrew Bostom, Prometheus Books, c.2008, pg. 682.
1990s
Samuel Francis Smith (1808–1895) Protestant Christian Minister Patriotic hymn writer
America, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
To A Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1724/ <br class="br">The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
1960s, I Have A Dream (1963)
“Man is one name belonging to every nation upon earth. In them all is one soul though many tongues.”
Omnium gentium unus homo, uarium nomen est, una anima, uaria uox, unus spiritus, uarius sonus, propria cuique genti loquella, sed loquellae materia communis.
Tertullian (155–220) Christian theologian
De Testimonio Animae (The Testimony of the Soul), 6.3
Context: Man is one name belonging to every nation upon earth. In them all is one soul though many tongues. Every country has its own language, yet the subjects of which the untutored soul speaks are the same everywhere.