Across Parker Avenue from the fort is the Site of the Old Gallows, where 83 men "stood on nothin', a-lookin' up a rope." The platf...orm had a trap wide enought to "accommodate" 12 men, but half that number was the highest ever reached. On two occasions six miscreants were executed. There were several groups of five, some quartets and trios.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing changes my twenty-six years in the military. I continue to love it and everything it stands for and everything I was able ...to accomplish in it. To put up a wall against the military because of one regulation would be doing the same thing that the regulation does in terms of negating people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hear ... foreigners, who would boycott an employer if he hired a colored workman, complain of wrong and oppression, of low wages... and long hours, clamoring for eight-hour systems ... ah, come with me, I feel like saying, I can show you workingmen's wrong and workingmen's toil which, could it speak, would send up a wail that might be heard from the Potomac to the Rio Grande; and should it unite and act, would shake this country from Carolina to California.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I am who I am because I'm a black female.... When I was health director in Arkansas ... I could talk about teen-age pregnancy, ...about poverty, ignorance and enslavement and how the white power structure had imposed it--only because I was a black female. I mean, black people would have eaten up a white male who said what I did.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That's a sucker game, Doc. There's probably fifty fellows around town just waitin' to see you get liquored up, so they can fill ya... full of holes. Build themselves up a great reputation--the man that killed Doc Holliday.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
George Shears ... was hanged in a barn near the store. The rope was thrown over a beam, and he was asked to walk up a ladder to sa...ve the trouble of preparing a drop for him. "Gentlemen," he said, "I am not used to this business. Shall I jump off or slide off?" He was told to jump.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we focus exclusively on teaching our children to read, write, spell, and count in their first years of life, we turn our homes ...into extensions of school and turn bringing up a child into an exercise in curriculum development. We should be parents first and teachers of academic skills second.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Jerry: She's one of those third-year girls that gripe my liver. Milo: Third-year girls?... Jerry: Yeah, you know, American college kids. They come over here to take their third year and lap up a little culture. They give me a swift pain. Milo: Why? Jerry: They're officious and dull. They're always making profound observations they've overheard.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My dear old grandfather Litcock said, just before they sprung the trap, you can't cheat an honest man. Never give a sucker an even... break or smarten up a chump.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »