Freedom Is Made
Os Simple Stuff
BY HAZEL PARKER
. . . Recent hired girl reporter.
(On The Courier-Journal.)
From the archives of broken
peace we are bringing out old
words and dusting them off for
use again as shining lanterns to
lead us through the darkness of
another war.
Words like freedom, justice and
truth —all of them hard to define,
none of them used more frequently
than freedom.
You cannot say what freedom
is perhaps, in a single sentence.
It is not necessary to define it.
It is enough to point to it.
Freedom is a man lifting, a
gate latch at dusk and sitting
for a while on the porch, smok
ing his pipe, before he goes to
bed.
It is the violence of an argu
ment outside an election poll; it
is the righteous anger of the
pulpits.
It is the warm laughter of a
girl on a park bench.
It is the rush of a train over
the continent and the unafraid
faces of people looking out the
windows.
It is the howdys in the world,
and all the hellos.
It is Westbrook Pegler telling
Roosevelt how to raise his chil
dren; it is Roosevelt letting them
raise themselves.
It is Lindbergh’s appeasing
voice raised above a thousand
hisses.
It is Dorothy Thompson asking
for war; it is Gen. Hugh SI John
son asking her to keep quiet.
It is you trying to remember
the words to The Star-Spangled
Banner.
It is the sea breaking on wide
sands somewhere and the shoul
ders of a mountain supporting
the sky.
It is the air you fill your lungs
with and the dirt that is your
garden.
It is a man cursing all cops.
It is the absence of apprehen-
sion at the sound of approaching
footsteps outside your closed
dcor.
It is your hot resentment of
intrigue, the tilt of your chin and
the tightening of your lips some
times.
It is all the things you do and
want to keep on doing.
It is all the things you feel and
cannot help feeling.
Freedom—it is you.
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