Word: slave
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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America is the accepted spokesman of world democracy, but a chain is no stronger than its weakest link. A doctrine which breaks down at home can hardly be propagated abroad. We have passed the day of the pious slave holder who became so deeply impressed with the plea for foreign missions that he sold one of his slaves to contribute liberally to the cause. If democracy cannot control lawlessness, then democracy is a failure...
...what they are attempting at New Haven. There is but one way to make the undergraduate pay more attention to his books. That is, to increase his desire to learn; stimulate his curiosity and his ambition and make him conscious of his mental inferiority. Why do undergraduates slave and work over their extra-curriculum activities? Because they make a direct appeal to ambition and pride. The thought that they may derive great good from these activities does not generally enter a student's head until long after he has graduated from college. Every undergraduate activity that is worth while...
...country of unbounded liberty they clamor against oppression. In a country of perfect equality they would move heaven and earth against privilege and monopoly. In a country where the wages of labor are high beyond parallel, they would teach the laborer that he is but an oppressed slave...
...elements, become the possession of every member of a democracy, else that democracy is not a reliable one and a permanent one. The governor of New Hampshire is striking at rock bottom. What we need in this world is less remedies and more precautions. Educate the peasant and the slave and less dupery shall exist. Certainly it is too late to elevate the laborer; educate rather the child. Open wide the door of opportunity; the ability and capability, of man await only its opening. We talk of democracy, much as if we had it. To realize it is our huge...
...verily believe that it would be better for civilization to end in the Ragnarok, or 'twilight of the gods,' like ancient Valhalla, than for it to continue 'half slave and half free' with a Prussian Kaiser as the dominating influence...