Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superint...endent, professor and president. So you must insist that qualifications, not sex, shall govern appointments and salaries.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man of great employments and excellent performance used to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was six...ty; although this smacks a little of the resolution of a certain "Young Men's Republican Club," that all men should be held eligible who are under seventy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a light,... as would render it eligible for human kind, that there should be such a state. These fine models of religion are the mere product of philosophy. For as death lies between the eye and the prospect of futurity, that event is so shocking to nature, that it must throw a gloom on all the regions which lie beyond it; and suggest to the generality of mankind the idea of Cerberus and Furies; devils, and torrents of fire and brimstone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian e...ndeavor in all its forms, but also for every variety of calisthenics, so that I still begrudge the trifling exertion needed to climb in and out of a bathtub, and hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. If I had my way no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust or profit under the United States, and all female athletes would be shipped to the white-slave corrals of the Argentine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The poorest children in a community now find the beneficent kindergarten open to them from the age of two-and-a-half to six years.... Too young heretofore to be eligible to any public school, they have acquired in their babyhood the vicious tendencies of their own depraved neighborhoods; and to their environment at that tender age had been due the loss of decency and self-respect that no after example of education has been able to restore to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Peoples need a victory so bad. We've been working here since '62 and we haven't got nothing, except a helluva lot of heartaches.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »