doi:10.1080/14664658.2013.816171RobinsonStephenAmerican Nineteenth Century History
"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The "sure thing" boat never gets far from shore."--Dale Carnegie "Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down."--Kobi Yamada ...
They have abolished the limitations of time and space and have brought the ends of the earth together. — Frederick Douglass From speech (20 Nov 1883) delivered to the Bethel Literary and Historical Association, Washington D.C.,'It Moves, or Philosophy of Reform' , collected in The Speeches ...
In address, delivered at Commencement (12 Jul 1854), Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio, 'The Negro Ethnologically Considered', collected in The Speeches of Frederick Douglass (2018), 133. In his speech, Douglass challenged racially biased premises of ethnology, and Southern pretenders to ...
* Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, and Frederick Douglass ponder Independence Day. * Amy Tan reflects on the meaning of the Chinese New Year. * Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Susan Sontag offer poignant descriptions of pain and illness. Whether you are offering consolation or congratulations, ...
American Indian Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes Amish Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes Arabic Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes Babylonian Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes Bosnian Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes Buddhist Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes Buddhist Teachings and Inspirational Quotes Chinese Proverbs...
it, but the masses are ever under its sway and direction... neither Irishman, Jew, nor Chinaman is fully included in the high human circle; but the fiercest wrath of this race prejudice is reserved for men and women of African blood. ~Frederick Douglass, "Toussaint L'Ouverture," c. 189...
-FREDERICK DOUGLASS, ESCAPED SLAVE It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates. -NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ Thought mu...
(turning 16, first home, first baby)...Entries supply not only the name of the writer/speaker, but the full title of the source and often a reference to the specific chapter from which the quote is taken. In many cases the compiler has attached a helpful note to explain context (e.g...
Frederick Douglass American Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison American Abolitionist Helen Hunt Jackson American Novelist John Weiss American Author Louisa May Alcott American Novelist Henry Ward Beecher American Protestant Clergyman John Greenleaf Whittier American Poet, Abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson Ame...