In 1872 I received a request like this and I did register and vote, for which I was arrested, convicted and fined $100. Excuse me ...if I decline to repeat the experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal request--it is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the pres...idential chair, recommend Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will enfranchise women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator. I beg of you not to close your term of office without doing this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We were soundly taught and the curriculum carried no hint that we were young women and not young men. We were not corrupted by hom...e economics or dressmaking or cookery or any such soft substitute for hard thinking. We were compelled to take sciences whether we liked them or not, and mathematics and Latin were emphasized and excellently administered. Each year the student body petitioned for a course in home economics, for in that day no girl thought it possible that she might not marry, and each year the faculty sternly refused to yield to the request.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One... must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
WHEREAS no provisions have, as yet, been made by the World's Columbian Exposition Commission for securing exhibits from the colore...d women of this country, or the giving of representation to them in such Fair, and WHEREAS under the present arrangement and classification of exhibits, it would be impossible for visitors to the Exposition to know and distinguish the exhibits and handiwork of the colored women from those of the Anglo- Saxons, and because of this the honor, fame and credit for all meritorious exhibits, though made by our race, would not duly be given us ... RESOLVED that for the purpose of demonstrating the progress of the colored women since emancipation and of showing to those who are yet doubters, and there are many, that the colored women ... are making rapid strides in art, science and manufacturing, and of furnishing to all information as to ... what the race has done, is doing and might do, in every department of life, that we, the colored women of Chicago request the Columbian Commission to establish an office for a colored woman whose duty it shall be to collect exhibits from the colored women of America ... [ellipses in source]LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But since our Saviours death did put some bloud Into thy face;... Thou art grown fair and full of grace, Much in request, much sought for as a good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O cheer and tune my heartless breast, Defer no time;... That so thy favours granting my request, They and my mind may chime, And mend my rhyme.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Were all the worshippers of the gold calf to memorialize me and request a restoration of the deposits I would cut my right hand fr...om my body before I would do such an act. The gold calf may be worshipped by others but as for myself I serve the Lord.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read onc...e.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no call for indignation or resentment at anyone whatsoever inquiring, holding, or propounding views concerning the d...ivine, for it is not the authority of the disputant, but the truth of the disputation that is in the request.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »