Sentences with phrase «sharecroppers longing»

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When the author recalls the long gallery of persons whom, in the course of this inquiry, he has come to know with the impetuous but temporary intimacy of the stranger — sharecroppers and plantation owners, workers and employers, merchants and bankers, intellectuals, preachers, organization leaders, political bosses, gangsters, black and white, men and women, young and old, Southerners and Northerners — the general observation retained is the following: Behind all outward dissimilarities, behind their contradictory valuations, rationalizations, vested interests, group allegiances and animosities, behind fears and defense constructions, behind the role they play in life and the mask they wear, people are all much alike on a fundamental level And they are all good people.

The sweeping canvas collects an array of excellent performances, with special praise already heaped upon Mary J. Blige as a long - suffering sharecropper and Garett Hedlund as a shell - shocked veteran finding some common ground with a black fellow soldier (Jason Mitchell).

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School sits on Holmberg Road, named for an east - west sharecropper's trail cut through woods and farmland long before the Sawgrass Expressway existed.