You glorify the women who made their way to the front to reach you in your misery, and nurse you back to life. You called us angel...s. Who opened the way for women to go and make it possible?... For every woman's hand that ever cooled your fevered brows, staunched your bleeding wounds, gave food to your famished bodies, or water to your parching lips, and called back life to your perishing bodies, you should bless God for Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances D. Gage and their followers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty wom...an on our right who smells of apple blossoms. Our bowels stir and our cod itches and we amend our prayers for the spiritual life with the hope that it will not be too spiritual.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that ca...n at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every human society endeavors to preserve itself by inventing the adolescence it requires. . . . Adults are prone to create myths ...about the meaning of adolescence. Whatever their political or personal inclinations, whether they glorify nature or revere society, whether they are identified with youth or they are detractors of youth, most adults find it imperative to defuse the awesome vitalities of these monsters, saints, and heroes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fact that white people readily and proudly call themselves "white," glorify all that is white, and whitewash all that is glori...fied, becomes unnatural and bigoted in its intent only when these same whites deny persons of African heritage who are Black the natural and inalienable right to readily--proudly--call themselves "black," glorify all that is black, and blackwash all that is glorified.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint... to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Instead of this we have luxury and avarice; public indigence side by side with private opulence; we glorify wealth and pursue idle...ness; between the worthy and the unworthy we make no distinction; all the prizes of virtue are awarded to ambition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »