Overview
Context
Dan addresses his younger brother, Chris, in
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DAN: Hush, Chris! It is not for us to visit retribution. Nor to wish hatred on others. Let us rather remember the good that has come to us. Love of humanity is above the small considerations of time or place or race or sect. Can't you be big enough to feel pity for the little crucified French children--for the ravished Polish girls, even as their mothers must have felt sorrow, if they had known, for our burned and maimed little ones? Oh, Mothers of Europe, we be of one blood, you and I!
Dunbar-Nelson, Alice, Mine Eyes Have Seen, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1918, p. 274.
Performance Tips
- Avoid the pitfall of playing Dan as merely
Emotional Beat Breakdown
1. Disarming the Rage
- What shifts: Dan
Links
Read the original published version of Mine Eyes Have Seen in the 1918 issue of The Crisis
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