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I will never accept that I got a free ride. It wasn't free at all. My ancestors were brought here against their will. They were ma... - MORE I will never accept that I got a free ride. It wasn't free at all. My ancestors were brought here against their will. They were made to work and help build the country. I worked in the cotton fields from the age of seven. I worked in the laundry for twenty- three years. I worked for the national organization for nine years. I just retired from city government after twelve-and-a- half years.

Johnnie Tillmon

welfare system | slavery | African American women

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Parental attitudes have greater correlation with pupil achievement than material home circumstances or variations in school and cl... - MORE Parental attitudes have greater correlation with pupil achievement than material home circumstances or variations in school and classroom organization, instructional materials, and particular teaching practices.

unknown author

school and parent interaction | parents

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Although there is no universal agreement as to a definition of life, its biological manifestations are generally considered to be ... - MORE Although there is no universal agreement as to a definition of life, its biological manifestations are generally considered to be organization, metabolism, growth, irritability, adaptation, and reproduction.

unknown author

life

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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry Brooks Adams

politics

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Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It has always been put down in the book as a state that might be carried by a c... - MORE Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It has always been put down in the book as a state that might be carried by a close and careful and perfect organization and a great deal of—[from audience: "soap"Ma reference to purchased votes, the word being followed by laughter].
I see reporters here, and therefore I will simply say that everybody showed a great deal of interest in the occasion, and distributed tracts and political documents all through the country.

Chester A. Arthur

elections

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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence. - MORE The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

Joan Baez

nonviolence

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The Red Cross in its nature, it aims and purposes, and consequently, its methods, is unlike any other organization in the country.... - MORE The Red Cross in its nature, it aims and purposes, and consequently, its methods, is unlike any other organization in the country. It is an organization of physical action, of instantaneous action, at the spur of the moment; it cannot await the ordinary deliberation of organized bodies if it would be of use to suffering humanity, ... [ellipsis in original] it has by its nature a field of its own.

Clara Barton

Red Cross

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If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we ... - MORE If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.

Jean Baudrillard

humankind

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I have never understood why they tried to start the revolution by taking over the universities. It should have been self-evident t... - MORE I have never understood why they tried to start the revolution by taking over the universities. It should have been self-evident that the net result of success would be to close the universities but leave the nation unaffected—at least, for quite a long time. Nor do I find it easy to believe that the rebels, as intelligent as most of them were, seriously expected that they could keep the universities alive as corporate bodies, once they had control of them, if they made the fundamental alterations in organization and role that they proposed to.

Muriel Beadle

revolution and revolutionary activity | University of Chicago, IL | college/university students

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... it is the right and duty of every woman to employ the power of organization and agitation in order to gain those advantages wh... - MORE ... it is the right and duty of every woman to employ the power of organization and agitation in order to gain those advantages which are given to the one sex and unjustly withheld from the other.

Catherine E. Beecher

social/political activism: 19th century | women's rights | equality of the sexes

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