French Post Offices

Famous quotes containing the words french, post and/or offices:

    When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That’s progress?
    —Marilyn French (b. 1929)

    My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes discuss the application of a compress or a wisp of hay under a broken limb, but not the bearing and merits of a political movement. I make gruel—not speeches; I write letters home for wounded soldiers, not political addresses.
    Clara Barton (1821–1912)

    The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, ‘tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)