Alice Dunbar-Nelson Quotes
It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.
Dunbar, Alice. "Sister Josepha." The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1899, p. 165.
Although English, Cobett spent time in America and published a newspaper, The Porcupine Gazette, in Philadelphia. We was very conservative and even proposed legally enslaving the lazy poor. One of the reasons that he spent time in America was that he thought that England had become hopelessy democratic but thought there might be hope for America. Cobbett and his paper represented the extreme right wing fringe of the then Federalist Party. His Porcupine Gazette had a paying readership of 3,200, the largest circulation of any American daily newspaper.
James was a Catholic King and did not like Protestants but positively detested Puritans. He made good his and “harried them out of the land” much to the benefit of the American colonies to which they immigrated and the detriment of England. Many of the immigrants to America came for the religious freedom, but in the early days, no sooner did they arrive and become the majority, than they began to discriminate against other religions.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. In the beginning of the 21st century, most Republicans had actually signed a pledge never to raise any taxes. Many of them might have thought better of the idea of they had read this quotation as freedom for them is a very important thing.
The New England Restraining Act 1st Marquess of Bath
Alice Dunbar Nelson was an American poet, journalist, and political activist. Among the first generation born free in the South after the Civil War, she was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance. Her first husband was the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. After his death, she then married physician Henry A. Callis; and, lastly, was married to Robert J. Nelson, a poet and civil rights activist. She achieved prominence as a poet, author of short stories and dramas, newspaper columnist, activist for women's rights, and editor of two anthologies.
