The Negro has no name. He is Cuffy Douglas or Cuffy Brooks, just whose Cuffy he may chance to be. The Woman has no name. She is Mr...s. Richard Roe or Mrs. John Doe, just whose Mrs. she may chance to be. Cuffy has no right to his earnings; he can not buy or sell, or lay up. Mrs. Roe has no right to her earnings; she can neither buy nor sell, make contracts, nor lay up anything that she can call her own. Cuffy has no right to his children; they can be sold from him at any time. Mrs. Roe has no right to her children; they may be bound out to cancel a father's debt of honor. The unborn child, even by the last will of the father, may be placed under the guardianship of a stranger and a foreigner. Cuffy has no legal existence; he is subject to restraint and moderate chastisement. Mrs. Roe has no legal existence; she has not the best right to her own person. The husband has the power to restrain, and administer moderate chastisement.... The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested very much in the same way. The Negro's skin and the woman's sex are both prima facie evidence that they were intended to be in subjection to the white Saxon man. The few social privileges which the man gives the woman, he makes up to the (free) Negro in civil rights.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Resolved, There can never be a true peace in this Republic until the civil and political rights of all citizens of African descent... and all women are practically established. Resolved, that the women of the Revolution were not wanting in heroism and self-sacrifice, and we, their daughters, are ready, in this War, to pledge our time, our means, our talents, and our lives, if need be, to secure the final and complete consecration of America to freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We can rejoice that the time has arrived when millions of Negro Americans can step out of the shadows, and walk forthrightly into ...the bright sunshine of human rights.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was the most ungrateful and unjust act ever perpetrated by a republic upon a class of citizens who had worked and sacrificed an...d suffered as did the women of this nation in the struggle of the Civil War only to be rewarded at its close by such unspeakable degradation as to be reduced to the plane of subjects to enfranchised slaves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a man, notoriously and designedly, insults and affronts you, knock him down; but if he only injures you, your best revenge is t...o be extremely civil to him in your outward behaviour, though at the same time you counterwork him, and return him the compliment, perhaps with interest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Stiller ... took part in the Spanish Civil War ... It is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many facto...rs were combined--a rather romantic Communism, such as was common among bourgeois intellectuals at that time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The President has the authority to do a great deal in promoting a reform of the civil service. But the great mass of evils to be d...ealt with require means, time agents, the work of intelligent and able officers, none of which the President has unless they are furnished by Congress. As at present situated, the great evil is congressional patronage. This I have resisted as a usurpation of executive prerogatives, until now few Congressmen assert openly their claim to it. But they withhold from the Executive the means to get information from other sources than through Congressmen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society. Fortunate...ly their number was small, and they could not prevent the old settlers from returning to cultivate the ground afresh, though without any fixed plan or agreement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From time to time we met a priest in the streets, for they are distinguished by their dress, like the civil police. Like clergymen... generally, with or without the gown, they made on us the impression of effeminacy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »