Standing before you as the advocate of the lower races, I declare what I believe cannot be gainsaid. … - George Thorndike Angell - Quotesmemo.com

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In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.

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George Thorndike Angell

Standing before you as the advocate of the lower races, I declare what I believe cannot be gainsaid. . . that just so soon and so far as we pour into all our schools the songs, the poems, and literature of mercy toward these lower creatures, just so soon and so far shall we reach the roots not only of cruelty, but of crime.

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I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots. '

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