Monday, September 16, 2019

WEEKEND QUOTABLES

BIRMINGHAM SUNDAY--56 years ago, white supremacists bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL, killing four girls and injuring dozens more.

Gene Patterson, the editor of the Atlanta Constitution in 1963
A Negro mother wept in the street Sunday morning in front of a Baptist Church in Birmingham. In her hand, she held a shoe, one shoe, from the foot of her dead child. We hold that shoe with her. Every one of us in the white South holds that small shoe in their hand. -- Tampa Bay Times
 Laura Washington
Let’s put another trope to rest: It’s the one about how these angry black women can’t get along. These two women don’t have to like each other. They probably never will. So what? -- Sun-Times
Stephen Colbert on the Democratic debate
Let the 'humble background games' begin. -- Guardian
Kamala Harris on Trump 
Donald Trump [on trade]… he reminds me of that guy in the Wizard of Oz, when you pull back the curtain, he’s a really small dude. -- The Hill
Donald Trump doing his best Don Quixote
"Goddamn windmills..."  -- Washington Post

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