Oh mother of a mighty race, Yet lovely in thy youthful grace!... The elder dames, thy haughty peers, Admire and hate thy blooming years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gende...r politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in th...e islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men hear gladly of the power of blood or race. Every body likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed to air, soil, sea..., or to local wealth, as mines and quarries, nor to laws and traditions, nor to fortune, but to superior brain, as it makes the praise more personal to him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Casting me adrift, 3500 miles from a port of call. You're sending me to my doom, eh? Well, you're wrong, Christian! I'll take this... boat as she floats to England if I must. I'll live to see you--all of you--hanging from the highest yardarms in the British fleet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've been in one Derby, and this is my third Belmont. But I've never thought of the fact that I haven't won a Triple Crown race. I...'m not like that. I always look at the sunshine of things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What education is to the individual man, revelation is to the human race. Education is revelation coming to the individual man, an...d revelation is education that has come, and is still coming to the human race.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »