Mo Williams: Some people peddle apples, lamb chops, lumber. I peddle information. Skip ain't sorry; he understands. We live in a d...ifferent kind of world. Oh, once in a while he gets a little hot under the collar if I sell him short. Candy: But you wouldn't sell him to a Commie! Mo Williams: What do you think I am, an informer?!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm headed for a land that's far away Beside the crystal fountains.... So come with me, we'll go and see The Big Rock Candy Mountains.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Paul: Did you have fun as a kid? Jeanne: It's the most beautiful thing.... Paul: Is it beautiful to be made into a tattletale, or forced to admire authority, or sell yourself for a piece of candy?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in th...e islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man is fallen; nature is erect, and serves as a differential thermometer, detecting the presence or absence of the divine sentimen...t in man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptib...ly and explicitly within himself, and not care what the world thinks. The mass of human beings, however, are not made that way; and many people have been saved from crime or sin by the simple dislike of doing things they would not like to confess ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Reformers have long observed city people loitering on busy corners, hanging around in candy stores and bars and drinking soda pop ...on stoops, and have passed a judgment, the gist of which is: "This is deplorable! If these people had decent homes and a more private or bosky outdoor place, they wouldn't be on the street!" That judgment represents a profound misunderstanding of cities. It makes no more sense than to drop in at a testimonial banquet in a hotel and conclude that if these people had wives who could cook, they would give their parties at home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These hearings take place on the eve of Mother's Day, a ritual observance which celebrates not so much mothers and motherhood as t...he American genius for wedding sentimentality and profitable commercialism.... But Mother's Day 1970 may usher in a new era, for it comes at a time when a very strong tide is running in behalf of the proposition that American women, while they may like candy and roses, really need basic rights still denied them. Rights not roses is the watchword for an increasing number of American women ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »