John Eliot came to preach to the Podunks in 1657, translated the Bible into their language, but made little progress in aboriginal... soul-saving. The Indians answered his pleas with: 'No, you have taken away our lands, and now you wish to make us a race of slaves.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I became increasingly anarchistic. I began to find people of my own class vicious, people in clean collars uninteresting. I even a...ccepted smells, personal as well as official. Everyone who came to the studio smelled either of machine oil or herring.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you know why I came to you, Amy? Why I came to be your friend? Because you called to me. Out of your loneliness you called me a...nd brought me into being. And I came, so that your childhood could be bright and full of friendliness. Now you must send me away.... You'll remember me for a while, mourn a little, but then you'll forget. And that is as it should be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once... mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let's face it, we became ingrown, clannish, and retarded. Cut off from the mainstream of humanity, we came to believe that pink is... "flesh-color", that mayonnaise is a nutrient, and that Barry Manilow is a musician.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victi...mized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In 1869 he started his work for temperance instigated by three drunken men who came to his home with a paper signed by a saloonkee...per and his patrons on which was written "For God's sake organize a temperance society."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Celestial roundsmen under the aegis of the 'New England Watch and Ward Society' inaugurated a virulent campaign against 'lewd and ...indecent' books and plays. What is salacity? It was like the time-honored stickler: How old is Ann? Other cities indulged in loud guffaws over the antics of the Boston censors as the latter grew hotter and hotter and more and more bothered over the perplexing problem. 'Banned in Boston' came to be the novelist's and dramatist's dream of successful publicity--'a natural' in advertising.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »