We would have taken to the road; at midday we would have halted in the shade of big trees; in the late afternoon the sinking sun would have turned the dust clouds to gold; and every evening at some village there would have been welcome, water, food, a fire in the night.
We halted voter ID laws in Texas and Ohio, and are building a base, several thousand youth strong, to fight for voters in Wisconsin.
We spied one momentarily halted in front of the Guaranty Trust Company, a depressing sight, low, green as a snake, and longer than the other one-story jobs in tow.
I have wondered, as we have seen men halted in their tracks upon accusations of sexual violence in some form, why has this not happened with systemic racism in the 400 years that black folks have been in America, given how much nonstop violence and harassment we have faced?
"In recent months we have seen, definitively, Daesh's momentum was halted in Iraq and in some cases reversed.
Increasing food production has to go hand in hand with sensitive management of the environment so that we halt the decline in our precious bee population.
Paul de Zylva, FoE nature campaigner, said: "Unless we halt the decline in British bees our farmers will have to rely on hand-pollination, sending food prices rocketing".
When we are resentful, we halt forward progress in healing both personally and professionally.
Climate scientists say we can yet avert the direst consequences if we halt the increase in pollution by 2015, then bring it down sharply.
Most advertising was halted in 2003.
