... the black woman can never forget--however lukewarm the party may to-day appear--that it was a Republican president who struck ...the manacles from her own wrists and gave the possibilities of manhood to her helpless little ones; and to her mind the Democratic Negro is a traitor and a time-server.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You don't hit a child when you want him to stop hitting. You don't yell at a children to get them to stop yelling. Or spit at a ch...ild to indicate that he should not spit. Of course, you want children to know how to sympathize with others and to "know how it feels," but you ... have to show them how to act--not how not to act.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your business is not to catch men with show, With homage to the perishable clay,... But lift them over it, ignore it all, Make them forget there's such a thing as flesh. Your business is to paint the souls of men--LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ye could not know where lies a thing so fair, No stone is there to show, no tongue to say,... What was; no dirge, except the hollow sea's, Mourns o'er the beauty of the Cyclades.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic c...onqueror. He who shall bravely and gracefully subdue this Gorgon of Convention and Fashion, and show men how to lead a clean, handsome and heroic life amid the beggarly elements of our cities and villages; whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor, and make his own name dear to all history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God of justice, God of mercy, Make us merciful and just!... Help us see all your creation As from you a sacred trust. And when people cry in anguish For their own or others' pain, Show us ways to make a difference O dear God, make us humane!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have been made to believe in this democracy thing, and I am all for tasting this democracy out. The flavor must be good. If the ...Occident is so intent in keeping the taste out of darker mouths that it spends all those billions and expends all those billions and expends all those millions of lives, colored ones too, to keep it among themselves, then it must be something good. I crave to sample this gorgeous thing. So I cannot say anything different from repeal of all Jim Crow laws! Not in some future generation, but repeal now and forever!!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »