Mary Antin
Mary Antin
Mary Antinwas 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...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth24 February 1909
CountryRussian Federation
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First, you had to have a tutor at home, who prepared you and talked all the time about the examination you would have to pass, till you were scared.
expected gentiles
There was one thing, however, the Gentiles always understood, and that was money. They would take any kind of bribe, at any time. They expected it.
draw higher left life means nearer shining step
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.
bones refuse nations
What we get in steerage is not the refuse, but the sinew and bone of all the nations.