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. Thats 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 gruelnot speeches; I write letters home for wounded soldiers, not political addresses.”
—Clara Barton (18211912)
“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 (18031882)