“[On Chicago:] First in violence, deepest in dirt; lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a village, the “tough” among cities, a spectacle for the nation.Lincoln Steffens
“You profess to believe that “of one blood God made all nations of men to dwell on the face of all the earth”—and hath commanded all men, everywhere, to love one another—yet you notoriously hate (and glory in your hatred!) all men whose skins are not colored like your own!Frederick Douglass
“As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. “And give up verse, my boy, There’s nothing in it.” Ezra Pound