The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that wo...rks through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I incline to think that the people will not now sustain the policy of upholding a State Government against a rival government, by ...the use of the forces of the United States. If this leads to the overthrow of the de jure government in a State, the de facto government must be recognized.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony... and has no ear for its whispering lacks eo ipso what might be called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »