I
have a great fear for the moral will of
Americans if it takes more than a week to
achieve the results.
-- Michael S.
Harper
No
author, without a trial, can conceive of the
difficulty of writing a romance about a country
where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no
mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor
anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad
and simple daylight, as is happily the case with
my dear native land.
-- Nathaniel
Hawthorne
1804-1864,
American Novelist, Short Story Writer
By
the definition accepted in the United States,
any person with even a small amount of Negro
Blood... is a Negro. Logically, it would be
exactly as justifiable to say that any person
with even a small amount of white blood is
white. Why do they say one rather than the
other? Because the former classification suits
the convenience of those making the
classification. Society, in short, regards as
true those systems that produce the desired
results. Science seeks only the most generally
useful systems of classification; these it
regards for the time being, until more useful
classifications are invented, as true.
-- S. I. Hayakawa
1902-1992,
Canadian Born American Senator, Educator
America is, therefore the land of the future,
where, in the ages that lie before us, the
burden of the World's history shall reveal
itself. It is a land of desire for all those who
are weary of the historical lumber-room of Old
Europe.
-- Georg Hegel
1770-1831, German
Philosopher
