
“Well, good-by, Uncle Tom; keep a stiff upper lip.”
Ch 10 The Property Is Carried Off
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Attacking Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, for his support of the same mosque.
Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/05/25/2010-05-25_tea_party_drip_bags_on_stringer.html#ixzz0oxRMH0QV
“Well, good-by, Uncle Tom; keep a stiff upper lip.”
Ch 10 The Property Is Carried Off
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
“England laughed at American authorship and we sent her Emerson and Uncle Tom's Cabin.”
From its destitution of trees, Scotland was once a by-word; now it is a garden of beauty. Five generations ago, Britain was ashamed to write books in her own tongue. Now her language is spoken in all quarters of the globe. The Jim Crow Minstrels have, in many cases, led the negro to the study of music; while the doubt cast upon the negro’s tongue has sent him to the lexicon and grammar and to the study of Greek orators and orations.
1870s, Self-Made Men (1872)
Part 4, section 20.
The Cunning Man (1994)
On declining to join the Congressional Black Caucus. Hannity & Colmes (1997)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Afterword (1984)
Context: Uncle Tom's Cabin was no literary masterpiece but it was a culture-bearing book. It came at a time when the entire culture was about to reject slavery. People seized upon it as a portrayal of their own new values and it became an overwhelming success.
The success of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance seems the result of this culture-bearing phenomenon. The involuntary shock treatment described here is against the law today. It is a violation of human liberty. The culture has changed.
Dara Ó Briain: Live at the Theatre Royal (2006)
“The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.”
Clifford, Act II, scene ii.
Henry VI, Part 3 (1592)
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), p. 375