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One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.
The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.
The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury.
The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.
Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.
The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.
I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.
It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.
The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.
I think FoxNews ratings are a reliable guide to the attitudes of the American electorate.
The perception is that more important people watch news in the evenings than in the mornings.
Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.
Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.
We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.
All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.
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