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__**The 1920's**__

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**"But jazz to me is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America; the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul--the tom-tom of revolt against against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile."**

--Langston Hughes, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" (1926)

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President Warren G. Harding "Americanism" speech...

//**"Call it the selfishness of nationality if you will. I think it's an inspiration to patriotic devotion to safeguard America first, to stabilize America first, to prosper America first, to think of America first, to exalt America first, to live for and revere America first."**//

President Warren G. Harding "Liberty Under Law" speech... //** "The Constitution contemplates no class and recognizes no group. It broadly includes all the people with specific recognition for none, and the highest consecration we can make today is a committal of the Republican party to that saving constitutionalism which contemplates all America as one people and holds just government free from influence on the one hand, and unmoved by intimidation on the other...We must not abridge the freedom of speech, the freedom of press, or the freedom of assembly, because there is no promise in repression. These liberties are as sacred as the freedom of religious beliefs, as inviolable as the rights of life and the pursuit of happiness..."

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//** "The Civilizing Force of Birth Control": Margaret Sanger speaks about the effects of contraception on women, **//

//**"**// //**The mother no longer considers herself a slave. She is glad that she is standing upon her own feet. She feels herself mistress of her own life, and no longer the inert, helpless, hopeless victim of circumstances which inevitably go from bad to worse. The difference is as striking as that between freeman and slave. The mothers who are liberated—and liberated through the exercise of their own intelligence and foresight—from the relentless pressure of involuntary motherhood—almost automatically become more interested in life, in the future, in the upbringing of their children, in the affairs of the community at large."**// ** "Two Million Wives Gainfully Employed, as listed by the U.S. Census", __Survey__ Magazine, Dec. 1926. **  A poem written by Arthur Chapman:
 * //Manufacturing: 466,663//**
 * //Trade and Transportation: 182,970//**
 * //Professional Service: 123,570//**
 * //Domestic and Personal Service: 637,675//**
 * //Clerical: 129,038//**
 * //Agricultural: 371,537//**

//Out where the handclasp's a little stronger,// //Out where the smile dwells a little longer,// //That's where the West begins;//

//Out where the sun is a little brighter,// //Where the snows that fall are a trifle whiter,// //Where the bonds of home are a wee bit tighter,// //That's where the West begins.//

//Out where the skies are a trifle bluer,// //Out where the friendship's a little truer,// //That's where the West begins;//

//Out where a fresher breeze is blowing,// //Where there's laughter in every streamlet flowing,// //Where there's more of reaping and less of sowing,// //That's where the West begins.//

//Out where the world is in the making,// //Where fewer hearts with despair are aching,// //That's where the West begins;//

//Where there's more of singing and less of sighing,// //Where's there's more of giving and less of buying,//

//And where a man makes friends without half trying—// //That's where the West begins.// **"Jazz is a good barometer of freedom. In its beginnings, the United States spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country."** --Duke Ellington

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 * " Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?"

-Sigmund Freud**
 * " The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other. "