... every sapient prophecy with regard to America has been disproved. We were forewarned that she was too free, and her liberty ha...s proved her security; too peaceable, and she has been found sufficient for her defence; too large, and her size has ensured her union. The bonds of union, indeed, are more numerous and intimate than can be easily conceived by foreigners. A people who have bled together for liberty, who equally appreciate and equally enjoy that liberty which their own blood or that of their fathers has purchased, who feel, too, that the liberty which they love has found her last asylum on their shores--such a people are bound together by ties of amity and citizenship far beyond what is usual in national communities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victi...mized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tom, remember your prayer. This time we have to say it to America. Arise my love. Arise, be strong, so you can stand up straight a...nd say to anyone under God's heaven, "Alright, whose way of life shall it be, yours or ours?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this Nation. Restori...ng that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am the kind of Negro that most white people don't know about. They either don't know, or maybe they don't want to know, I'm not ...sure which I mean, just listen to that fella, David Duke, down in Louisiana--the fella that was with the Klan and then he was going to run for president. David Duke doesn't think there are Negroes like me and Sadie, colored folks who have never done nothin' except contribute to America. Well, I'm just as good an American as he is--better! ...I think I'm going to write a letter, and I'm going to say, "Dear Mr. Duke: This is just to set the record straight. I am a Negro woman. I was brought up in a good family. My Papa was a devoted father. I went to college; I paid my own way. I am not stupid. I'm not on welfare. And I'm not scrubbing floors. Especially not yours."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a... great service to mankind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground wh...ere only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is hard to believe that England is so near as from your letters it appears; and that this identical piece of paper has lately c...ome all the way from there hither, begrimed with the English dust which made you hesitate to use it; from England, which is only historical fairyland to me, to America, which I have put my spade into, and about which there is no doubt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The cultivated apple tree was first introduced into this country by the earliest settlers, and is thought to do as well or better ...here than anywhere else. Probably some of the varieties which are now cultivated were first introduced into Britain by the Romans. Pliny, adopting the distinction of Theophrastus, says, "Of trees there are some which are altogether wild (sylvestres), some more civilized (urbaniores)." Theophrastus includes the apple among the last; and, indeed, it is in this sense the most civilized of all trees. It is as harmless as a dove, as beautiful as a rose, and as valuable as flocks and herds. It has been longer cultivated than any other, and so is more humanized; and who knows but, like the dog, it will at length be no longer traceable to its wild original? It migrates with man, like the dog and horse and cow: first, perchance, from Greece to Italy, thence to England, thence to America; and our Western emigrant is still marching steadily toward the setting sun with the seeds of the apple in his pocket, or perhaps a few young trees strapped to his load.... For when man migrates, he carries with him not only his birds, quadrupeds, insects, vegetables, and his very sward, but his orchard also.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »