Lincoln’s Influence on Arthur and James Jarvis
...uote stems from the famous opening of “For score and seven years ago…” The quote is “…that all men are created equal”. South Africa may not be America, may not have a Constitution such as America’s, but that quote should be in the hearts and minds of all men. Arthur Jarvis was one of those such men that could trandsend through invisible racial barriers and hold that quote as true in his heart and soul. The next quote comes from the second paragraph of the Address, “We are met on a great battkefield of that war”. The black and white South Africans are symbolically at “war” with one another. Their weapons aren’t always guns and knifes but hate. Hate, a powerful weapon that denied black Africans educational opportunities, broke up the tribal system, creating a new moral order, the breaking up of families, etc. Moving on in the Address we find the quote, “The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here”. Arthur Jarvis was doing something productive in helping the black South Africans. He was part of a “group” that was trying to show the rest of the racists world that what was being done to the native South Africans was wrong. Arthur wrote essay’s and articles on the subject and spoke sentences to those that would listen. Although what Arthur wrote or even spoke helped his cause it was not his words nor his papers that the future would remember, but rather what his words and papers established. The last part of the Gettysburg Address that Arthur Jarvis may have been influenced by is a passage. It is the last paragraph of the Address. The entire last paragraph speaks in Arthur’s essay and article however, two quotes can be pulled from it that speak in a louder voice. The first quote is, “It is for us the living, rather, to be deticated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly adavanced” and “…that this nation, under God, shall havea new birth of freedom…and that government of the people…by the people…for the people…shall not perish from the earth”. These quotes speak of what Arthur was trying to bring forth to the conscious mind of the people. That ...