“Well, good-by, Uncle Tom; keep a stiff upper lip.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe book Uncle Tom's Cabin
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.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe book Uncle Tom's Cabin
Ch 10 The Property Is Carried Off
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: The Piper's Son
“England laughed at American authorship and we sent her Emerson and Uncle Tom's Cabin.”
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
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)
Robertson Davies book The Cunning Man
Part 4, section 20.
The Cunning Man (1994)
J. C. Watts (1957) American politician
On declining to join the Congressional Black Caucus. Hannity & Colmes (1997)
Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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 (1972) Irish comedian and television presenter
Dara Ó Briain: Live at the Theatre Royal (2006)
“The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.”
William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3
Clifford, Act II, scene ii.
Henry VI, Part 3 (1592)
Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), p. 375