Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or ...bad.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, ...which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The scenery of Walden is on a humble scale, and, though very beautiful, does not approach to grandeur, nor can it much concern one... who has not long frequented it or lived by its shore; yet this pond is so remarkable for its depth and purity as to merit a particular description. It is a clear and deep green well, half a mile long and a mile and three quarters in circumference, and contains about sixty-one and a half acres; a perennial spring in the midst of pine and oak woods, without any visible inlet or outlet except by the clouds and evaporation. The surrounding hills rise abruptly from the water to the height of forty to eighty feet, though on the southeast and east they attain to about one hundred and one hundred and fifty feet respectively, within a quarter and a third of a mile. They are exclusively woodland.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Her fortune, too, lies there, Converted into cool hard steel... And right red velvet lining; While over her tan impassivity Shot silk is shining.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is it not singular that, while the religious world is gradually picking to pieces its old testaments, here are some coming slowly ...after, on the seashore, picking up the durable relics of perhaps older books, and putting them together again?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »