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Mary Antin [1909-1949] Russian

Rank: 104
Activist, Author

Mary Antin was an American author and immigration rights activist. She is best known for her 1912 autobiography The Promised Land, an account of her emigration and subsequent Americanization.

Birthday, Health, Morning, Positive

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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.	Health, Positive	101
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.		102
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.		103
You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.		104
His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.		105
On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.	Birthday	106
The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.	Morning	107
As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns.		108
If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them.		109
In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths.		110
No, the czar did not want us in the schools.		111
Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.		112
The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family.		113
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.		114
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.		115
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.		116

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