Mary Antin's Profile
Brief about Mary Antin: By info that we know Mary Antin was born at 1909-02-24. And also Mary Antin is Russian Activist.
Some Mary Antin's quotes. Goto "Mary Antin's quotation" section for more.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.
Tags: School, Struggle, TimeIn the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths.
Tags: Evening, Father, PublicOn 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.
Tags: Birthday, House, PoliceOur mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
Tags: Growth, Mothers, SpiritualThe apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.
Tags: Morning, Pride, SchoolYou heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.
Tags: Children, Heard, TurnYou went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.
Tags: Children, Heart, MatterAs 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.
Tags: Father, Morning, SaidIf 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.
Tags: Education, Life, MeansOne 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.
Tags: Health, Love, PositiveThe 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.
Tags: Die, Left, MightThe 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.
Tags: Father, Food, ReadyThere 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.
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