The pure products of America go crazy--mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and va...lleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To motorists bound to or from the Jersey shore, Perth Amboy consists of five traffic lights that sometimes tie up week-end traffic... for miles. While cars creep along or come to a prolonged halt, drivers lean out to discuss with each other this red menace to freedom of the road.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Upon being asked if, in the primitive Hunterdon County, New Jersey, mountain town where she lived, there was "any distinction of ...color" among the residents]: No, not a bit, The niggers and whites all live together. The whites are just as good as the niggers, and both are as bad as the devil can make 'em.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ah, Governor [Murphy, of New Jersey], don't try to deceive me as to the sentiment of the dear people. I have been hearing from the... West and the East, and the South seems to be the only section which approves of me at all, and that comes from merely a generous impulse, for even that section would deny me its votes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing could be more beautiful than our passage down the Hudson [River].... The change, the contrast, the ceaseless variety of be...auty, as you skim from side to side, the liquid smoothness of the broad mirror which reflects the scene, and most of all, the clear bright air through which you look at it; all this can only be seen and believed by crossing the Atlantic.... The magnificent boldness of the Jersey shore on the one side, and the luxurious softness of the shady lawns on the other, with the vast silvery stream that flows between them, altogether form a picture which may well excuse a traveller for saying, once and again, that the Hudson river can be surpassed in beauty by none on the outside of Paradise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ladies and gentlemen, I have a grave announcement to make. Incredible as it may seem, strange beings who landed in New Jersey toni...ght are the vanguard of an invading army from Mars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the v...esture of his adopted land.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a normal person the motor and sensory nervous systems act as the windows of the individual personality.... [ellipsis in origina...l] The broken, many-stained and pictorial windows through which the light is struggling under disadvantages to harmonize itself with the physical world at large are found in three classes of persons--the mentally deficient, the morally deficient, and the insane. In these, the light is there, but the images, as in a broken cathedral window, are more or less shattered and confused.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Negro history must be studied, not only because it is the history of over 19 millions, but American life as a whole cannot be unde...rstood without knowing it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »