Anyway, the job didn’t call for deep thinking: if you thought too much, brought your insight and intellect to bear on the problems of the nation, you’d get out front of the President, or worse still, off to the side. That’s the surest way
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“For if there be ano Christ there be no God; and if there be no God we are not, for there could have been no bcreation. But there is a God, and che is Christ, and he cometh in the fulness of his own time.”
― Book of Mormon | Doctrine and Covenants | Pearl of Great Price
― Book of Mormon | Doctrine and Covenants | Pearl of Great Price
“Pullman porters embrace all that. They are men whose compelling biographies tell bigger stories of racial dynamics, democracy, and the building of African-America. Not only are they a singular tale of history; they are one that is living and breathing today. Behind almost every successful African-American, there is a Pullman porter.”
― Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
― Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
“Your dear picture is on my bureau and now the wistful look I have loved from the first has an added quality of sadness.”
― Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952–1964
― Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952–1964
“One parting thought: Stan has just volunteered to take care of Roger & Jeffie while you and I go to Sweden!”
― Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952–1964
― Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952–1964
“Along with their special blue blankets porters got blue pillows, just to make sure a conductor never had to rest his white head on a pillow used by a black porter. Fare receipts were color-coded, too, with a P on those handed out by porters. And Pullman offices in Miami and other districts maintained two sign-in windows: an indoor one for conductors while the porters’ was out in the elements.52d That obsession with keeping things separate was even more apparent in the early days of the dining cars. A curtain was drawn around porters while they ate, creating a small coloreds-only space like the one used for the rare Negro passenger.e And the Pullman Company preferred light-skinned Negroes on its dining cars, in contrast to its dark-skinned porters. A hiring directive on porters clearly stated, “Do not employ a light complexioned man”; it did not explain why.53 Hiring light-skinned waiters probably was a throwback to slave days, when softer-toned Negroes got favored jobs in the Big House, while the directive on porters seemed aimed at accentuating the wall of demarcation between served and servant.”
― Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
― Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
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