Olive Schreiner Quotes


The nations which have received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered, and the nations that have tortured and oppressed him have written out their own curse.


Citations

Schreiner, Olive. A Letter on the Jew. H. Liberman, 1906, p. 10.

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Olive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner
  • Born: March 24, 1855
  • Died: December 11, 1920
  • Nationality: South African
  • Profession: Novelist, Suffragist, Political Activist

Olive Schreiner was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual. She is best remembered today for her novel The Story of an African Farm (1883), which has been highly acclaimed. It deals boldly with such contemporary issues as agnosticism, existential independence, individualism, the professional aspirations of women, and the elemental nature of life on the colonial frontier.