Industrial Schools Act

Famous quotes containing the words industrial, schools and/or act:

    “The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.”
    —Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)

    “To be a Negro is to participate in a culture of poverty and fear that goes far deeper than any law for or against discrimination.... After the racist statutes are all struck down, after legal equality has been achieved in the schools and in the courts, there remains the profound institutionalized and abiding wrong that white America has worked on the Negro for so long.”
    —Michael Harrington (1928–1989)

    “Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible; and as the test of belief is willingness to act, one may say that faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.”
    —William James (1842–1910)