“I mark this day with a white stone.”
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
19 December 1863; he frequently used this or a similar phrase for especially notable days.
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“Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone?”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 10.
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Nigel Rees, "Sayings of the Century", Unwin paperbacks, 1984, p. 247.
Radio broadcast, March 20, 1976.
Peter Godwin, Comment in the Guardian(UK) Newspaper http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/nov/25/comment.zimbabwe.
Reverend John Hale
Source: The Crucible (1953)
“Both read the Bible day and night,
But thou read'st black where I read white.”
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Speech on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968)
Context: Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort. In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it's perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in. For those of you who are black -- considering the evidence evidently is that there were white people who were responsible -- you can be filled with bitterness, and with hatred, and a desire for revenge. We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization -- black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand, and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion, and love. [... ] But we have to make an effort in the United States. We have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond, or go beyond these rather difficult times.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
As quoted in Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)
1960s
James H. Cone (1938–2018) American theologian
Source: Black Theology and Black Power (1969), p. 16
