James Russell Lowell Quotes
Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891, U. S. Ambassador to Spain & England, Quoted in James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, 1899
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As a woman, Anthony was found guilty of “illegal voting” in the Presidential election of 1872. Fining her $100 the judge asked if she had anything to say. This was her reply.
Urging Black military participation for the Union in the Civil War:
This quotation has been used by gay rights advocates. Opponents argue that a gay lifestyle is not “innocent” in that it is Biblically prohibited. This brings the issue of separation of church and state into the argument.
In the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution there were time limits and constraints on getting consensus of which rights would be enumerated. The fact that all rights were not in these documents does not mean that they were not considered rights by many of the founders. One of the major political debates in American history has been whether other rights should be functional and legislated other than those that were mentioned in these founding documents. Many of these have found their way into State constitutions and legislation. But rights that were not specifically enumerated in the Constitution for example include the right of privacy, a right to education, a right to health care and many others.
Those who support the right of the individual woman to use contraception or have an abortion cite this quotation to illustrate this early statement of the right of a person to have control over his or her own body.
Ernestine Louise Polowsky. Rose was an atheist as well, a rarity for abolitionists of the time.
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He succeeded to the extent that he was the driving force behind the British abolition of the Slave Trade.
Lieber in 1860 was assigned by President Lincoln to study the then international laws of war and prepare a manual for the guidance of union troops in the Civil War. Lincoln then issued the document as a general order, and much of today’s military rules of conduct came from that effort.
This is a remarkable quotation. Because of the issue of plural marriage, many Americans regarded the early Mormons as having no respect for the country or its laws. However, as this quotation shows, the Mormon leader, prophet and founder specifically commanded his people to not only support the United States law but specifically mentions The Constitution. He told his followers that God approves of the United States constitution and states that it is in a sense universal, belonging to all mankind. There is no other religious founder who so thoroughly validated a national constitution and system in the history of the world. Yet he was assassinated and after his death, the United States Government was almost in a full scale war with the Mormons. There is still a vestige of anti-Mormonism in the United States among some Christian Fundamentalists. Yet the Mormon church has been a thoroughly American church, historically, conceptually, and philosophically It has even shared some of the American historical errors such as its sexism and discriminatory rules and view of Blacks. The latter has been remedied {625268} as the rest of America has changed, and the discriminatory role of women is very traditional and is shared with most other Christian fundamentalists and orthodox Jews.
James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets that rivaled the popularity of British poets. These writers usually used conventional forms and meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining at their fireside.
