Alexander Pope Quotes
Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
Pope, Alexander. An Essay on Man. J. Wilford, 1734, p. 75.
He was shot by the Fascist / Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War for his views.
AEI, though a conservative think-tank, with this approach departed far from the then current Republican Party that was highly influenced or even controlled by the Tea Party faction.
The reason this quotation is important, it was the first time in American history that a President had tied racial discrimination to morality. Before that other Presidents had argued against segregation on pragmatic grounds or on legal, Constitutional grounds. Kennedy’s private moral declaration had a huge impact on Black leaders throughout the country who heard about it by word of mouth. That statement forged a bond between JFK and Blacks while most whites did not see anything striking in the statement.
Alexander Pope is seen as one of the greatest English poets and the foremost poet of the early 18th century. He is best known for satirical and discursive poetry, including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Criticism, and for his translation of Homer. After Shakespeare, Pope is the second-most quoted writer in English, according to The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, some of his verses having become popular in common parlance (e. g., damning with faint praise). He is considered a master of the heroic couplet.
