Motherhood Quote by Richard V. Allen

“This land” is made legitimate not by paperwork but by payment. The line opens like a deed signed in grief: “watered with our tears and our blood” turns settlement into sacrifice, and sacrifice into ownership. It’s a political move disguised as sentiment. If you’ve bled for a place, the argument goes, you’ve earned the right to call it home - and to be heard there.

Allen’s phrasing borrows the muscle of civic scripture. “Mother country” is a loaded reversal: in an era when “mother country” often meant the empire across the ocean, he drags the term down to the dirt of lived experience. The subtext is both defiant and conciliatory. Defiant, because it rejects the idea that belonging depends on ancestry or permission; conciliatory, because it frames that claim in gratitude rather than threat. The speaker isn’t asking to be accepted. He’s declaring satisfaction, a quiet flex that implies permanence.

Then comes the ideological packaging: “wisdom abounds and gospel is free.” That’s not just piety; it’s a carefully chosen civic credential. “Wisdom” signals enlightenment values, education, rational governance. “Gospel is free” invokes religious liberty and moral legitimacy, the kind of language that plays well in a culture that wants to see itself as righteous. Read closely, it’s also a subtle critique: freedom and wisdom are presented as things that exist here - and therefore must be extended to those who have already paid the admission price in tears and blood.