For mainstream American blacks, the vast majority of churches have Hebrew names--Ebenezer, Mount Zion, Canaan, Mount Moriah, Taber...nacle, New Hebron, Mount Olive. Hebraic traditions run deep in the black church. More than any people on earth, including the Jews, American blacks have adopted the Mosaic model of social organization, with the exalted political prophet bonded to the "children of Israel" below. Blacks and Jews have in common a history of cyclical swings between cultural separatism and assimilation. Black Zionists helped establish an independent Liberia in 1847, some fifty years before the emergence of modern Jewish Zionism. Jews, who have canonized no new prophets in two millennia and who shudder at the memory of their false messiahs, look with both longing and horror upon the last generation's procession of black prophets: Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Louis Farrakhan, and Jesse Jackson. Depending on one's prediction of the outcome, blacks and Jews are either intimate enemies or quarrelsome cousins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Good government cannot be found on the bargain-counter. We have seen samples of bargain-counter government in the past when low ta...x rates were secured by increasing the bonded debt for current expenses or refusing to keep our institutions up to the standard in repairs, extensions, equipment, and accommodations. I refuse, and the Republican Party refuses, to endorse that method of sham and shoddy economy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The clause which lived twenty-four hours in the Alabama Constitution, granting to taxpaying women owning $500 worth of property th...e suffrage on questions of bonded indebtedness, was killed by a disease peculiar to the genus homo known as chivalry. In the case in point, the diagnosis revealed that the fairest, purest and brightest jewels that ever shone under the brilliant rays of God's shining sun would be immeasurably lowered by voting upon questions relating to the taxation of their own property. Yet, under the vagaries of this disease, this same convention conferred on husbands the right to vote on their wives' property. This is the same character of chivalry which gives the wages of the brightest, fairest jewels to the husband, which makes impossible equal pay for equal work and which classes the jewels with the idiots, insane and criminals in that and other States.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And one has eaten and one walks, past the magazines with nudes... and the posters for bullfight and the Manhattan Storage Warehouse, which they'll soon tear down.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tilting up his nose, He inhaled the rancid rosin, burly smells... Of dampened lumber, emanations blown From warehouse doors, the gustiness of ropes, Decays of sacks, and all the arrant stinks That helped him round his rude æsthetic out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave... off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You can say anything you want, 'cause I've heard it all before. All you can do is pray for a quick death ... which you ain't gonna... get.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You see what I've been putting up with, Eddie? I fucking walked in here, I told these guys about staying put, Mr. White whips out ...his gun, he's sticking it in my face, calling me a motherfucker, saying he's going to blow me away, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »