There is much to be said against the climate on the coast of British Columbia and Alaska; yet, I believe that the scenery of one g...ood day will compensate the tourists who will go there in increasing numbers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are born with luck which is to say with gold in our mouth.... As new and smooth as a grape, as pure as a pond in Alaska, as good as the stem of a green bean we are born and that ought to be enough....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will f...ollow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The actions of each dancer were scrutinized with great care and any little mistake noted and remembered. The strain upon a dancer ...was consequently so great that when a fine dancer died soon after a feast it was said, "The peoples' looks have killed him."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mining today is an affair of mathematics, of finance, of the latest in engineering skill. Cautious men behind polished desks in Sa...n Francisco figure out in advance the amount of metal to a cubic yard, the number of yards washed a day, the cost of each operation. They have no need of grubstakes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The white dominant culture seemed to think that once the Indians were off the reservations, they'd eventually become like everybod...y else. But they aren't like everybody else. When the Indianness is drummed out of them, they are turned into hopeless drunks on skid row.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so--called educational system, which... is nothing more than a system of rewards and punishments based upon one's ability to pledge loyalty oaths to Anglo culture. The media and the "educational system" are the prime sources of racism in the United States.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it's because ...many American politicians have the race issue to fall back on. They become lazy, suspicious of innovative ideas, and as a result American institutions atrophy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At this time in American history, we are like ghosts talking gibberish through different dimensions, and stupid men do not make go...od make good mediums.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I need not tell you of the inadequacy of the American shipping marine on the Pacific Coast.... For this reason it seems to me that... there is no subject to which Congress can better devote its attention in the coming session than the passage of a bill which shall encourage our merchant marine in such a way as to establish American lines directly between New York and the eastern ports and South American ports, and both our Pacific Coast ports and the Orient and the Philippines.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »