The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy,… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
This fair homestead has fallen to us, and how little have we done to improve it, how little have we cleared and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and… — Edward Pearson Pressey Copy Share Image
The country is an archipelago of lakes,--the lake-country of New England. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Today we take New England clam chowder as something traditional that makes our roots as American cooking very solid, with a lot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight,… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down as 18-1,… — Ellis Hobbs Copy Share Image
There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's worm her hulk shall bore,And sink her in the Indian seas,Twine, wine, and hides, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For decades I have tried to peel back the layers of mystery surrounding many marine creatures, though most have held tightly to… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine,... I proposed to make… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life. — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
“Springtime in Massachusetts is depressing for those who embrace a progressive view of history and experience. It does not gradually develop as… — Rebecca Harrington Copy Share Image
In New England enslaved people had the right to sue for wrongful enslavement. — Manisha Sinha Copy Share Image
I've got a lot of things that are probably obvious, not much outside the box right now. But, I have been listening… — Hal Ketchum Copy Share Image
What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As early as 1776, [John Adams] expressed his doubts about America's capacity for virtue. "I have seen all along my Life, Such… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Only she who attempts the absurd can ever achieve the impossible.” — Nancy Means Wright Copy Share Image
Mortal City was really influenced by geography. [The song] "The Ocean" is the Pacific Northwest. Southern California and New York also figure… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image