January 2012
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To My Old Master →
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In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdan — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below (a letter which,...
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If the mountain won't come to Muhammad
Meaning
If one’s will does not prevail, one must submit to an alternative.
Origin
The full phrase ‘If the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain’ arises from the story of Muhammad, as retold by Francis Bacon, in Essays, 1625:
Mahomet cald the Hill to come to him. And when the Hill stood still, he was neuer a whit abashed, but said; If the Hill...
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Islamic Extremists is to Islam as KKK is to Christianity.
– THE WEST WING
“ISAAC AND ISHMAEL”
WRITTEN BY: AARON SORKIN
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