New York is more now than the sum of its people and buildings. It makes sense only as a mechanical intelligence, a transporter sys...tem for the daily absorbing and nightly redeploying of the human multitudes whose services it requires.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In Sumter and other counties [in South Carolina] the whites are resorting to intimidation and violence to prevent the colored peop...le from organizing for the elections. The division there is still on the color line. Substantially all the whites are Democrats and all the colored people are Republicans. There is no political principle in dispute between them. The whites have the intelligence, the property, and the courage which make power. The negroes are for the most part ignorant, poor, and timid. My view is that the whites must be divided there before a better state of things will prevail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have fo...r us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and there are varie...ties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Having intelligence is not as important as knowing when to use it, just as having a hoe is not as important as knowing when to pla...nt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By 1879, seven churches of various denominations were holding services, which led the local Chronicle to comment, "All have but on...e religion and one God in common; it is the Crucified Carbonate."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a Kelton church, when a heated argument once began at morning services, a devout old deacon arose from his seat in the 'amen co...rner' and announced he was going to do for the church what the devil had never done--leave it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »