Women generally should be taught that the rough life men must needs lead, in order to be healthy, useful and manly men, would prec...lude the possibility of a great degree of physical perfection, especially in color. It is not a bad reflection to know that in all probability the human animal has endowments enough without aspiring to be the beauty of all creation as well as the ruler.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line--the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in A...sia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
crew member [offscreen]: That's an awful big town San Francisco. Weinberg: Strictly a one-whistle stop. There's only one city... in the USA and that's New York. Chief Sergeant: Oh, you're just another hometown hick, Weinberg. What's wrong with California? Weinberg: California. The sun shines and nothing happens. Before you know it, you're sixty years old. Chief Sergeant: It's no different from New York. My sister's been tryin' to get out of Brooklyn for the last forty years. Weinberg: Brooklyn. That ain't New York, Chief. Once you cross that Brooklyn Bridge, you're out of this world. The only noise you hear is the hardening of your arteries. You know when I used to drive a hack, I had a pal who crossed that bridge back in 1929 and ain't never heard from him since.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since the quarrel Will bear no color for the thing he is,... Fashion it thus: that what he is, augmented, Would run to these and these extremities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Karen: I never knew it could be like this. Nobody ever kissed me the way you do. Sergeant Warden: Nobody?... Karen: No, nobody. Sergeant Warden: Not even one? Out of all the men you've been kissed by? Karen: Well, that would take some figuring. How many men do you think there've been? Sergeant Warden: I wouldn't know. Can't you give me a rough estimate? Karen: Not without an adding machine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul...; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »