Famous quotes containing the words british, art and/or resistance:
“The inhabitants of St. Johns and vicinity are described by an English traveler as singularly unprepossessing, and before completing his period he adds, besides, they are generally very much disaffected to the British crown. I suspect that that besides should have been a because.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“May we not assure ourselves that whatever womans thought and study shall embrace will thereby receive a new inspiration, that she will save science from materialism, and art from a gross realism; that the eternal womanly shall lead upward and onward?”
—Louisa Parsons Hopkins, U.S. scientist and author. As quoted in The Fair Women, ch. 16, by Jeanne Madeline Weimann (1981)
“... resistance to tyranny is mans highest ideal.”
—Emma Goldman (18691940)