Statues:The People They Salute
John Stark is credited with New Hampshire’s state motto, “Live Free or Die”
ANSWER to yesterday’s 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸DAILY QUIZ🇺🇸🇺🇸
WHO is credited with New Hampshire’s state motto, “Live Free or Die”?
The phrase “Live Free or Die” was taken from a toast on July 31, 1809 which was written by General John Stark, a famed New Hampshire soldier of the American Revolutionary War. General John Stark was invited to an anniversary reunion of the Battle of Bennington, but he became ill just prior to the reunion and was unable to attend. He sent his toast by letter which was “Live Free or Die: Death is not the worst of evils.”
Pictured is a statue of General John Stark located located at the Bennington Battle Monument in Vermont. John Stark is also the subject of one of the two statues in the National Statuary Hall Collection. Check the for the link below to read my Blog Post about him.
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Molly Stark was referenced by her husband, General John Stark in a battle cry at the Battle of Bennington during the Revolutionary War. General John Stark is also credited with New Hampshire’s state motto, “Live Free or Die.”
John Stark is the subject of one of the statue representing New Hampshire in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol. Here’s the link to my Blog Post in my series about the collection. Read more about Molly’s hero husband here...😉🇺🇸
https://dianaerbio.wordpress.com/2018/05/22/statues-the-people-they-salute-john-stark/
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On this day in 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. was born - January 15, 1929.
This passage is from the National Parks Service and describes the theme of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial...
“Out of the Mountain of Despair, a Stone of Hope.”
In 1996 Congress authorized Martin Luther King, Jr.’s fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, to establish a Memorial to him in Washington, D.C. The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation held a design competition.
In 2000, the judges selected ROMA Design Group’s plan for a stone with Dr. King’s image emerging from a mountain. The plan’s theme referenced a line from King’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech, “With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.”
The final design includes a massive carved mountain with a slice pulled out of it, symbolizing the “Stone of Hope” being hewn from the “Mountain of Despair.” Reinforcing this motif, the edges of the Stone of Hope and the Mountain of Despair incorporate scrape marks to symbolize the struggle and movement, as well as an engraving of the words “Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.”
Visitors may enter the memorial through the Mountain of Despair and tour the memorial reflecting on the struggle that Dr. King faced during his life, approaching the plaza where the Stone of Hope stands. In the stone, a carving of Dr. King gazes to the horizon and encouraging citizens to strive for equality and justice.
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Also wanted to post a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. written in 1947...
Here’s another passage from the piece...
“Education must also train one for quick, resolute and effective thinking. To think incisively and to think for one’s self is very difficult. We are prone to let our mental life become invaded by legions of half truths, prejudices, and propaganda. At this point, I often wonder whether or not education is fulfilling its purpose. A great majority of the so-called educated people do not think logically and scientifically. Even the press, the classroom, the platform, and the pulpit in many instances do not give us objective and unbiased truths. To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.”
Here’s the link to the entire piece... Here’s a link to the origins of the quote in 1947... https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/purpose-education
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Diana Erbio is a freelance writer and author of “Coming to America: A Girl Struggles to Find her Way in a New World”. Visit her on Facebook and read her blog series “Statues: The People They Salute” .