Anna Howard Shaw Quotes
What is Americanism? Every one has a different answer. Some people say it is never to submit to the dictation of a King. Others say Americanism is the pride of liberty and the defence of an insult to the flag with their gore. When some half-developed person tramples on that flag, we should be ready to pour out the blood of the nation, they say. But do we not sit in silence when that flag waves over living conditions which should be an insult to all patriotism?
Shaw, Anna Howard. Address. National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention. 1916. Quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, edited by Ida Husted Harper, vol. 5, National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1922.
He persuaded many other rulers to join the Indian Union when India became Independent.
The hypocricy of this slogan is almost incredible. Most of the actions of the KKK over the years have violated the spirit and the laws of America. They are opposed to many of the Bill of Rights. There was a time, before the 1970s, where members literally got away with murder in the South. When Americas laws were enforced and KKK members who broke the law were jailed and sued for monetary damages, the Klan has a very tiny membership and is constantly under survelience.
“Volk” loosely translated means “the people.” However it carries the connotation of a unity that “the people” does not.
Anna Howard Shaw was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and one of the first ordained female Methodist ministers in the United States.
