In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of bot...h races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer ... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bo...ne and sinew of the country--men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them... with another, and to assume the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. The proper place to-day, the onl...y place which Massachusetts has provided for her freer and less desponding spirits, is in her prisons, to be put out and locked out of the State by her own act, as they have already put themselves out by their principles. It is there that the fugitive slave, and the Mexican prisoner on parole, and the Indian come to plead the wrongs of his race should find them; on that separate, but more free and honorable, ground, where the State places those who are not with her, but against her,--the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor. If any think that their influence would be lost there, and their voices no longer afflict the ear of the State, that they would not be as an enemy within its walls, they do not know by how much truth is stronger than error, nor how much more eloquently and effectively he can combat injustice who has experienced a little in his own person.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think o...f movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to be married, and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make he...r his wife. But if her father refuses to give her to him, he shall pay an amount equal to the bride-price for virgins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself a...gainst me; then I would have hid myself from him: But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female.' 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and ...be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are such beings in the World perhaps, one in a Thousand, as the Creature You and I should think perfection, Where Grace... & Spirit are united to Worth, where the Manners are equal to the Heart & Understanding, but such a person may not come in your way, or if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a Man of Fortune, the Brother of your particular friend & belonging to your own Country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »