Whenever one leaves town for a vacation or a business trip, luggage packing never fails to become a major activity. The plan to always lightly travel is sometimes forgotten and before one realizes it, the bag has become full and there are a number of other things yet to be placed inside. Having traveled since I was a little boy, such problems are rarely experienced. I seemed to have become a master packer, easily being able to put everything in my good old Samsonite luggage. That piece of luggage has been with me all over the country and all the way to Europe and back. I use it until now.
One of the most moving speeches that I've read. During grade school, this was the most often recited elocution piece in my school. Here it is, the text of Raul Manglapus' Land of Bondage, Land of the Free. Land of Bondage, Land of the Free By Raul Manglapus And yet, ladies and gentlemen, the tao is constitutionally free! No wonder, then, that the tao being a slave has acquired the habits of a slave. No wonder that after three centuries in chains, without freedom, without hope, he should lose the erect and fearless posture of a freeman, and become the bent, misshapen, indolent, vicious, pitiful thing that he is! Who dares accuse him now? Who dares rise up in judgement against this man, reduced to this subhuman level by three centuries of oppession? Ladies and gentlemen the tao does not come here tonight to be judged -- but to judge! Hear then his accusation and his sentence: I indict the Spanish encomendero for inventing taxes impossible to pay! I indict the usurer for s...
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