They beat her, I don’t know how long, and after a while she began to pray, and asked God to have mercy on those people.

I live at 626 East Lafayette Street, Ruleville, Mississippi, Sunflower County, the home of Senator James O. Eastland, and Senator Stennis.

The next bus driver may also not stop for colored passengers.

You are like the Alien [and] Sedition Act, and Jefferson could be sitting here, and Frederick Douglass could be sitting here, and Eugene Debs could be here.

Now they have learned to vocalize their bitterness.

but even Hitler would classify him as Aryan at first glance.

The floor is chocolate liberally sprinkled with white sauce.

with it a spiritual Coming of Age

Norse mythology

The granting of our national freedom will be at this time the object lesson that you could give to the world that this country can give of her belief in democracy and in the rights of every people to be free and to govern themselves.

It would be fifteen years until the United States acted

We want to put a stop to lynch law, the butchering of our people like hogs, burning our houses, shooting our wives and children and raping our daughters and mothers.

Such injustice is not tolerated by any other civilized nation; not even is Spain guilty of such discrimination among her own citizens.

Some fault is found with us for sticking to our old customs here, especially in the matter of clothes, but the reason is that we find American clothes much inferior, so far as comfort and warmth go.

There’s a good deal of gambling and some opium smoking, but not so much as Americans imagine. Only a few of New York’s Chinamen smoke opium.

My children don’t dress like the other Chinese. They look just as phunny amongst them as the Chinese dress in Chinese look amongst you Caucasians.

help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst,

It has deliberately pushed itself into the circle of international hatreds, and joined the common pack of wolves.

taking no holidays, respecting no traditional anniversaries, but laboring incessantly, and subsisting on practically nothing for food and clothes,

only 224 votes were cast in favor of the immigration and 41,258 votes against it.

which threatened this country for many years prior to 1880….

more evident the non-assimilative character of the Chinese and their undesirability as citizens

“Why brought ye us from bondage, “Our loved Egyptian night?”

Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half devil and half child

And then I went to bed, and went to sleep, and slept soundly,

when they came to us, as a gift from the gods