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“New Light on the 'Sweatshop Cinderella'”

“The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.”

“Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse”

“Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut—a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.”

“Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.”

“Anzia Yezierska and the Popular Periodical Debate Over the Jews”

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"I know, Mother, you feel badly and that you would prefer to have me take some other course, if I could in conscience. Yet, Mother, I know you too well to suppose that you would wish me to turn away fr…"

— Lucy Stone

Social Activism1818–1893

#education

"As many universities plan for online or hybrid learning this fall, this needlessly punitive proposal puts international students at risk of illness or deportation if they continue their education in t…"

— John Lewis

Social Activism1940–2020

#education

"To the existence of banks of discount for cash... there can be no objection, because there can be no danger of abuse, and they are a convenience both to merchants and individuals. I think they should …"

— Thomas Jefferson

Politics

#time

"Criminals are never materially handicapped by such rules; the only effect is to disarm the peaceful citizen and put him fully at the mercy of the lawless. Such rules look very pretty on paper; in prac…"

— Robert A. Heinlein

Literature1907–1988

#peace