Less than five hundred souls inhabit the three quaint streets and the few narrow by-lanes and scattered farmsteads that constitute... this small, decaying watering-place which may, indeed, be called a "backwater of life" without disrespect to its natives who possess, to this day, a salty individuality of their own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I N take thee M to my wedded husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in s...ickness and in health, to love, cherish, and to obey, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I give thee my troth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The confirmation of Clarence Thomas, one of the most conservative voices to be added to the [Supreme] Court in recent memory, carr...ies a sobering message for the African- American community.... As he begins to make his mark upon the lives of African Americans, we must acknowledge that his successful nomination is due in no small measure to the support he received from black Americans.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Judge Thomas was a man who had used the system to get where he wanted to be, but then felt that everyone else should pull themselv...es up by their own bootstraps.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the oddest episodes I remember was an occasion in which [Clarence] Thomas was drinking a Coke in his office, he got up from... the table, at which we were working, went over to his desk to get the Coke, looked at the can and asked, "Who has put pubic hair on my coke?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know St. Thomas Aquinas calls eternity, nunc stans, and ever-abiding now; which is easy enough to say, but though I fain would, ...yet I could never conceive it: they that can are more happy than I.... I understand as little how it can be true his Lordship says, that God is not just, but justice itself; not wise, but wisdom itself; not eternal, but eternity itself;... These phrases I find not in the Scripture; I wonder therefore what was the design of the Schoolmen to bring them up, unless they thought a man could not be a true Christian unless his understanding be first strangled with such hard sayings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority o...f an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow no...tions of racial solidarity that suppress dissent and critique can lead black folks to support individuals who will not protect their rights.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »