“The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it... Do not misunderstand me, but understand me fully with reference to my affection for the land. I never said the land was mine to do with it as I chose. The one who has the right to dispose of it is the one who created it. I claim a right to live on my land and accord you the privilege to live on yours.” MenMadeSaidCountryLinesLandMinesClaimsPrivilegeAffectionDividesAccordUnderstand Me Author:Chief Joseph
“Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. I can express with very limited adequacy the passionate devotion to this land that possesses millions of our people, born, like myself, under other skies, for the privilege that that this county has bestowed in allowing them to partake of its fellowship.” PeopleI CanBornEmotionMillionsSkyLandGratitudePassionatePrivilegeDevotionAllowingFellowshipCountyAdequacy Author:Felix Frankfurter
“If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God promised our forefathers to give us, as it is written.” IfsGivingHas BeensWrittenLandProudPrivilegeGrantedForefathers Author:Shmuel Yosef Agnon
“The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a means to food, clothing and shelter for woman at large that what they would still be enjoying would be equality in disaster rather than in realistic privilege.” IfsMenShouldMeanLongStillsWould BeRunningTodayLawSocialEnjoyVisionRightsWrittenLandCenturyEqualShould HaveBillsPrivilegeDisasterOfficialsRealisticClothingsDragShelterWomens RightsEqual RightsInadequateBill Of RightsProclamationOverdue Author:Mary Ritter Beard
“Take two kids in competition for their parents' love and attention. Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other; the resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other; the personal frustrations that they don't dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister, and it's not hard to understand why in families across the land, the sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.” FeelsChildrenTwoHardEnoughKidsParentAttentionLandEmotionalBrotherAddCompetitionRoundsPrivilegeDareEnvyAccomplishmentFrustrationResentmentExplosionsSiblingRivalryDynamiteParents LoveSibling Rivalry Author:Adele Faber
“In Harlem, black was white. You had rights that could not be denied you; you had privileges, protected by law. And you had money. Everybody in Harlem had money. It was a land of plenty.” LawBlackWhiteRightsLandPrivilegePlentyDeniedProtectedHarlem Book:The City of Refuge: The Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher Source: The City of Refuge: The Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher