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Mary Antin Quotes

Mary Antin quotes

Russian Activist February 24, 1909 – May 15, 1949

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One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue. Mary Antin
If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them. Mary Antin
Had I been brought to America a few years earlier, I might have written that in such and such a year my father emigrated, just as I would state what he did for a living, as a matter of family history. Happening when it did, the emigration became of the most vital importance to me personally. All the processes of uprooting, transportation, replanting, acclimatization, and development took place in my own soul. I felt the pang, the fear, the wonder, and the joy of it. I can never forget, for I... Mary Antin
Mary Antin quote: "The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family."
The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family. Mary Antin
On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles. Mary Antin
As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns. Mary Antin
There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles. Mary Antin
His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day. Mary Antin
The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school. Mary Antin
Mary Antin quote: "Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth;..."
Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth. Mary Antin
The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them. Mary Antin
The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces. Mary Antin
Mary Antin quote: "In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the..."
In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths. Mary Antin
I was at a most impressionable age when I was transplanted to the new soil. I was in that period when even normal children, undisturbed in their customary environment, begin to explore their own hearts, and endeavor to account for themselves and their world. Mary Antin
It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry out that the universe is falling to pieces, if any one but lift a finger to replace the error by truth. Mary Antin

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