Cobbins Trial Quotes & Sayings

ON JUNE 25, 1890, W. E. B. Du Bois spoke at his Harvard graduation ceremony. He had now excelled, and had graduated from the most prestigious historically Black college and the most prestigious historically White college in the United States. He felt he was showing off the capability of his race. Du Bois's "brilliant and eloquent address," as judged by the reporters, was on "Jefferson Davis as Representative of Civilization." In Du Bois's rendering, Jefferson Davis, who had died the year before, represented the rugged individualism and domineering European civilization, in contrast to the rugged "submission" and selflessness of African civilization. The European "met civilization and crushed it," Du Bois concluded. "The Negro met civilization and was crushed by it." According to Du Bois's biographer, the Harvard graduate contrasted the civilized European "Strong Man" to the civilized African "Submissive Man."5 — Ibram X. Kendi

But if she can marry blood, beauty, and bravery - the sooner the better. — George Eliot

Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family. — Charles Dickens

Women love with their imagination and men with their senses. — Ellen Glasgow

Saturday morning, you knew what was cool by what was on 'Soul Train.' — Nick Cannon

Nick smiled. "I kind of like the irony."
"Jesus, you are such a nerd." Gabriel flung the lighter at him.
"Stop using big words."
"Five letters is a big word? — Brigid Kemmerer

The soul withdrew to a rational silence. The body remained there in the madness. — Edith Hahn Beer

Now I don't work for the money or the glory. I just work because I like building businesses. — Stefano Pessina

I did have a very advanced grandmother, my mother's mother, who wanted to buy me a camera. My parents wouldn't let her. Eventually she won, and I got a camera in about 1948, a Voigtlander. — Peter Beard