If you complain of neglect of education in sons, what shall I say with regard to daughters, who every day experience the want of i...t? With regard to the education of my own children, I find myself soon out of my depth, destitute and deficient in every part of education. I most sincerely wish ... that our new Constitution may be distinguished for encouraging learning and virtue. If we mean to have heroes, statesmen, and philosophers, we should have learned women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And the shuttle never falters, but to draw an encouraging conclusion From this would be considerable, too odd. Why not just...r />Breathe in with the courage of each day, recognizing yourself as one Who must with difficulty get down from high places?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Who are you," said the caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, "I-...-I hardly know, Sir, just at present--at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have changed several times since then."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moral development, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black chil...dren without the ability to feel a normal amount of guilt will victimize their parents, relatives and community first. They are unlikely to be involved in social action to improve the black community. Their self-centered personalities will cause them to look out for themselves without concern for others, black or white.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which must yet have had a long foreground somewhere, for such a start. I rubbed my... eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is a sober certainty. It has the best merits, namely, of fortifying and encouraging.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I prefer to make no new declarations [on southern policy beyond what was in the Letter of Acceptance]. But you may say, if you dee...m it advisable, that you know that I will stand by the friendly and encouraging words of that Letter, and by all that they imply. You cannot express that too strongly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am satisfied the present Chinese labor invasion (it is not in any proper sense immigration--women and children do not come) is p...ernicious and should be discouraged. Our experience in dealing with the weaker races--the negroes and Indians, for example--is not encouraging. We shall oppress the Chinamen, and their presence will make hoodlums and vagabonds of their oppressors. I therefore would consider with favor suitable measures to discourage the Chinese from coming to our shores. But I suspect that this bill is inconsistent with our treaty obligations.... If it violates the National faith, I must decline to sign it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They aroused me to a determination to understand more fully the position of women, and the character of those men who talk so much... of the need of our being "protected"Mremoving from us, meanwhile, what are often the very weapons of our defence [sic], occupations, and proper and encouraging remuneration.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »