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1896

★ 6.9

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Dissenting opinion · Legal writing

The arbitrary separation of citizens on the basis of race while they are on a public highway is a badge of servitude wholly inconsistent with the civil freedom and the equality before the law established by the Constitution... We boast of the freedom enjoyed by our people above all other peoples. But it is difficult to reconcile that boast with a state of the law which, practically, puts the brand of servitude and degradation upon a large class of our fellow citizens, our equals before the law. The thin disguise of "equal" accommodations for passengers in railroad coaches will not mislead anyone, nor atone for the wrong this day done.

John Marshall Harlan

Plessy v. Ferguson · 1896

★ 6.0

Interview

When two people take each other on terms of perfect equality, without the desire of one to control the other, to make the other subservient, it is a beautiful thing. It is the truest and highest state of life.

Susan B. Anthony

1896

★ 5.4

In the life of each of us, I said to myself there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

Sarah Orne Jewett

1896

★ 5.3

Psychological literature · Religious literature

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

William James

The Will to Believe · 1896

★ 5.3

Political literature

We are one people-our enemies have made us one whether we will or not, as has repeatedly happened in history. Affliction binds us together, and thus united, we suddenly discover our strength. Yes, we are strong enough to form a State, and, indeed, a model State.

Theodor Herzl

The Jewish State · 1896

★ 5.2

Speech · Political speech

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Booker T. Washington

1896

★ 3.9

Personal journal

Each race determines for itself what indecencies are. Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

Mark Twain

1896

★ 3.8

Novel

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

Mark Twain

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc · 1896

★ 3.8

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Dissenting opinion · Legal writing

Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.

John Marshall Harlan

Plessy v. Ferguson · 1896

★ 3.7

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Marcel Proust

1896

★ 3.7

Newspaper

All the news that's fit to print.

Adolph S. Ochs

1896

★ 3.6

Essay

Form ever follows function.

Louis Henri Sullivan

1896

★ 3.6

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

The Will to Believe · 1896

★ 3.6

Poem

My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.

William Sharp

1896

★ 3.6

Speech · Political speech

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

William Jennings Bryan

1896

★ 3.6

Poem

And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.

A.E. Housman

1896

★ 3.5

Letter

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

George Bernard Shaw

1896

★ 3.5

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts or to abolish distinctions based upon physical differences, and the attempt to do so can only result in accentuating the difficulties of the present situation.

Henry Billings Brown

Plessy v. Ferguson · 1896

★ 3.5

An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important." This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter.

William James

The Will to Believe · 1896

★ 3.5

Play

Women can't forgive failure.

Anton Chekhov

1896

★ 2.1

Novel

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes.

Joseph Conrad

1896

★ 2.1

Poem

So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

1896

★ 1.9

I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that He was indifferent.

George Sand

1896

★ 1.9