#crucible

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman. ↗

— Israel Zangwill

#arrived #coming #crucible #fusion #i

I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do. ↗

— John Hawkes

#crucible #guthrie #high #high school #i

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#depression #early #formed #great #great depression

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#crucible #difficulty #forms #surmounting

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity. ↗

— Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

#achievement #american #american life #crucible #democratic

Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#been #conflict #crucible #job #look

When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith. ↗

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#american #american people #before #calling #cries

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! ↗

— Israel Zangwill

#crucible #europe #god #great #melting

He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him! ↗

— Arthur Miller

#religion #salem-witch-trials #the-crucible #religion

It was that time of the century when the idea of a gentleman had almost become myth. The Great War had concussed the world. The unbearable news of sixteen million deaths rolled off the great metal drums of the newspapers. Europe was a crucible of bones. ↗

— Colum McCann

#death