Margaret Abigail Walker

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    “croppers rotting shacks
    with famine, terror, flood, and plague near by;
    where sentiment and hatred still held sway
    and only bitter land was washed away.”
    —Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)

    “Let the martial songs be written, let the dirges disappear. Let a
    race of men now rise and take control!”
    —Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)

    “All you violated ones with gentle hearts;
    You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak;”
    —Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)

    “Her voice is thin and her moan is high,
    And her cackling laugh or her barking cold
    Bring terror to the young and old.
    O Molly, Molly, Molly Means
    Lean is the ghost of Molly Means.”
    —Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)

    “If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
    —Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)