William Hazlitt Quotes
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
Hazlitt, William. Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1823, p. 116.
Johnson was the greatest boxer of his era and perhaps of all time. The not only beat the what champions in an era of Jim Crowe but he lived an ostentation life as a celebrity -- almost unheard of for a Black man at tht time. He never assumed any subervience which was expected of all Negroes at the time, He lived openly with a white woman and was jailed for a while. What is particualrly interesting about this quotation is that with all his accomplishments as the best boxer in the world, a man wh was very wealthy, that the thing he was most proud of was that he had maintained his manhood and did not cower as almost all blacks were forst to do. What he achieved ia what most Black men have striven for and still do.
William Hazlitt was an English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. He is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. He is also acknowledged as the finest art critic of his age. Despite his high standing among historians of literature and art, his work is currently little read and mostly out of print.
