This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often they don't, an...d the more in a hurry you are, the quicker you break down.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled... In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapped in universal law.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have it ...for her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 »
The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited.... There is no right ...to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We shall exchange our material thinking for something quite different, and we shall all be kin. We shall all be enfranchised, proh...ibition will prevail, many wrongs will be righted, vampires and grafters and slackers will be relegated to a class by themselves, stiff necks will limber up, hearts of stone will be changed to hearts of flesh, and little by little we shall begin to understand each other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women realize that we are living in an ungoverned world. At heart we are all pacifists. We should love to talk it over with the wa...r-makers, but they would not understand. Words are so inadequate, and we realize that the hatred must kill itself; so we give our men gladly, unselfishly, proudly, patriotically, since the world chooses to settle its disputes in the old barbarous way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know no East or West, North or South, when it comes to my class fighting the battle for justice. If it is my fortune to live to ...see the industrial chain broken from every workingman's child in America, and if then there is one black child in Africa in bondage, there shall I go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can't say much for the women though. But oh, the girls. All Malayan females should be poisoned at twenty-one. Before that they'r...e--mmmh!... Oh yes, they're dark. But the longer you're there, the whiter they get. Well that's the way it seems.... I'll never forget the first time I saw them. We sailed into a little harbor about sundown, and the girls came swimming out. Flowers in their long hair. Singing and laughing upward through the water. Brown skinned. It seemed like gold to me. A richer, deeper gold than any metal. I can see that gold shimmer even now on their wet bodies. And they swam like mermaids to the rail and climbed on board. Laughing at us like a bunch of shameless imps.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »