Mary Antin Quotes
You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose. - Mary Antin
You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.
- Mary Antin
We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful.
- Mary Antin
There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles.
- Mary Antin
The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.
- Mary Antin
The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die.
- Mary Antin
The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family.
- Mary Antin
The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.
- Mary Antin
Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
- Mary Antin
One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.
- Mary Antin
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