For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying princi...ple of our Government, the right of consent, shall have practical application to the other half of people. Such a little simple thing we have been asking for a quarter of a century. For over forty years, longer than the children of Israel wandered through the wilderness, we have been begging and praying and pleading for this act of justice. We shall some day be heeded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Next, 'real' is what we may call a trouser-word. It is usually thought, and I dare say usually rightly thought, that what one migh...t call the affirmative use of a term is basic--that, to understand 'x,' we need to know what it is to be x, or to be an x, and that knowing this apprises us of what it is not to be x, not to be an x. But with 'real' (as we briefly noted earlier) it is the negative use that wears the trousers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
White ... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black.... God p...aints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would say that deconstruction is affirmation rather than questioning, in a sense which is not positive: I would distinguish betw...een the positive, or positions, and affirmations. I think that deconstruction is affirmative rather than questioning: this affirmation goes through some radical questioning, but it is not questioning in the field of analysis.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. F...or, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled up... in the skull of Napoleon!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in th...e affirmative.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great et...ernal forms of life and transformation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »