But Martin Carter fought on, decade upon decade, first becoming a friar, then traveling the world on church missions, and finally, at 50, after more racial slights than he cares to share, being ordained a priest.
It's hard to top Henry's legendary, inspiring words to his troops before the battle of Agincourt: "... gentlemen in England now a-bed, / Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, / And hold their manhoods cheap, while any speaks, / That fought with us upon St Crispin's day".
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
For centuries, women have fought the unjust limitations placed upon them as artists and creators.
He alludes to a "key paragraph" that became a "battlefield" upon which he fought and "lost".
"I was the one that was being preyed upon and I fought back.
Human progress depends upon expanding the freedoms that they fought for and so majestically articulated.
That is the basis upon which this ideological war is being fought, surely.
By what right did I wish more hard fights upon a man who has given and taken so many blows already?
The time he helped lead the final push to unionize the Southern textile giant J. P. Stevens, the monumental organizing fight upon which the movie "Norma Rae" was based.
