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DAN: Hush, Chris! It is not for us to vi...

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Mine Eyes Have Seen

Alice Dunbar-Nelson

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Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act One, Scene One
Time & Place
An apartment in a manufacturing city in the Northern part of the United States, 1918
Length
Short
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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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.

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Read the original published version of Mine Eyes Have Seen in the 1918 issue of The Crisis

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