people-from-st-louis

"Naoroji lost all the money he took from playing poker in Johnson's place; we have his confession for that. We may have a fight on our hands against influences, of which we know nothing, but we will know of them, and the public will know of them, before we get through with Mr. Johnson."

"You’ll hear from me down in Africa shootin’ craps."

"You bother me anymore, I'll have you in the penitentiary, and you'll stay there 'til I let you out."

"For a man who has got all the coin Johnson is said to have, he is the closest colored man in the world.""

"I didn’t exactly do much book learning, I went out to see where the money grew. Some of those who know me say that I found it."

"Johnson is so high in the regard of the boss that he is given free rein in the operation of the bungaloo games and in promoting policy in general among the colored population."

"Every two years during the mayoral campaign, Johnson would give $10,000 to the Democrats and $10,000 to the Republicans. Thus, his gambling establishment was protected regardless of the winner."

"When my family went in for religion and all that, I didn't really fancy so much learning and went out to see where the money grew. Some of those who know me say I found it."

"A man that gambles had better be without money, anyway, I may put it to some good use; you wouldn’t know how."

"What else is there for a colored man to do?"

"A man who gambled had no business with money."

"I bought a lot on a prairie where a town afterwards was located."

"We used to have a little gambling here, but the dust is an inch thick upstairs. You can’t judge by this. All the rest of the week, it will be like a graveyard."

"Half a dozen stud poker games were in operation, and the checks were piled high in front of most of the white and black gamblers who surrounded the tables. “Mushmouth” Johnson, serene and smiling, stood by and watched the play..."

"When declaring the infallibility of the pope, the Vatican Council did not have in mind a situation in which, his papal prerogative acknowledged, the faithful might have a wider field of thought and action in religious matters; rather the infallibility was declared in order to provide against the special evils of our times, of license which is confounded with liberty, and the habit of thinking, saying, and printing everything regardless of truth. It was not intended to hamper real serious study or research, or to conflict with any well-ascertained truth, but only to use the authority and wisdom of the Church more effectually in protecting men against error."

"I want to create positive change for the directorate and have TD be a part of Vision 2026’s success"

"I’m a transformational leader and a servant leader at heart"

"I recognize my customer is the workforce in the field, so I am here to serve them. I must make sure that they receive the proper resources, that they have been adequately trained, and I have to ensure that everything they do positively impacts those around them."

"Because I was working in program offices, it gave me insight into DCMA and what they do in-plant, so that was very beneficial"

"feel like my past roles allowed me to bring my acquisition and Army-specific background into this position so I can best support those in the field"

"Our headquarters staff is about 144 strong, but we are affecting a workforce in the field which is over 5,000 strong,"

"Employees are our number one asset, and their concerns are valid, so I'm taking a very strategic approach to address items from the DEOCS survey perspective"

"Green's current reputation [is being] one of the "most sampled guitarists.""

"Grant was the master of phrasing."

"Grant Green's unique mixture of bebop, blues and fun distinguished him as one of the quintessential soul jazz/hard bop guitarists from the get-go."

"He fought against chewing tobacco, wrote two more books, helped found an organization to assist former players in need, and worked tirelessly to try to help Native American kids. By any measure, that's a full life."

"One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: When you bought your ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth."

"Not only was I not the best catcher in the major leagues, I wasn’t even the best catcher on my street."

"I went through life as 'a player to be named later'."

"Never trust a baserunner with a limp. Comes a base hit and you'll think he just got back from Lourdes."

"In my estimation, he’s one of the greatest organizers that this country has ever had."

"In the region called “Cancer Alley” between Baton Rouge and New Orleans along the Mississippi river, there’s scores of impoverished, mostly African American and poor communities living in close proximity to oil refineries, plastic production facilities and literally seven days a week, nearly 24 hours a day, those communities are being rained on with some of the worst toxins and chemicals imaginable. So people are very, very sick. Children in those communities miss school because they have high rates of asthma and other severe respiratory problems, and there are very high rates of cancer in that region of the country and in other parts of the country where people of color and poor and working class people are disproportionately exposed to sources of pollution."

"We’re talking about the need for health justice for all, and that is also linked to the issue of our nation’s priorities, Amy. We can’t talk about health justice unless we talk about the war in Iraq? Why? Because we’re talking about $400 billion being spent on war and occupation, when people in this country don’t have fundamental access to health care. Billions of dollars are being spent on research and development for space weapons, for nuclear weapons technology. Dr. King said that when a nation focuses on these kinds of things, our priorities are out of whack."

"The visits to Cairo (Illinois) totally transformed my life. I made my decision on the bus leaving there that I would commit my life to the movement of social justice and Black rights. I knew I would use whatever I learned at college for the struggle of black equality and black liberation."

"There’s a lot of dogmatism in movements, a lot of finger-wagging, a lot of angry voices, but with Damu, he met you where you were"

"It’s a disgrace that we live in a country where people have to face these kinds of obstacles to quality care."

"You can tell people to go get screened, but colonoscopies cost money, from $700 to $900 every time you go. People who are uninsured, and that’s 44 million people in this country, 40 million partially insured, 164 million people in this country who are in health jeopardy because they don’t have access to some form of health insurance. We’re talking about a situation where people don’t have the possibility of getting screened. So we can’t just talk about getting screened, we have to talk about how we can organize and protest and raise the fundamental public policy issues including the need for national comprehensive universal health care, and that’s what the Spirit of Hope Campaign which has been mobilized around my situation is doing, to raise these issues of universal access and racial disparities in the health care system."

"Yesterday, I watched the President, in his inauguration speech, mention “freedom” twenty-plus times. The day before, I heard his stone-faced, reactionary nominee for Secretary of State, Ms. Condoleezza, speak so insensitively about the issue of torture. George Bush doesn’t know anything about freedom, because he’s not hearing the cries of the Haitian people. He’s not hearing the cries of the Palestinian people who live under the boot of Israel’s brutal and barbaric and racist occupation of the Palestinian people. He does not hear the cries of the Iraqi people. He does not hear the cries of the prisoners at Abu Ghraib. He does not hear the cries of the people in the Congo where the United States policy of so many years created the division in that country that we’re seeing right now. I didn’t hear him talk about the people in the far region of the Sudan. I didn’t hear him talk about the people in the ghettos and barrios of America. I didn’t hear him talk about the working people of our country who don’t have a living wage and don’t have health care. I didn’t hear him talk about our youth who are dying in our streets and our children who are going hungry every day. I didn’t hear him talk about any of these things. He knows nothing about freedom. We know everything about freedom. We’re the moral authority of our nation. Our responsibility is to be the other voice and the other authority because there’s a dual authority in the country. There’s one authority representing the reactionary and evil and criminal policies of this administration, and then there’s the authority of people who love and yearn for justice and peace and human rights."

"The Lord is asking us to be aware of them and to reach out to them. We are asked to preach the Gospel with our lives. This Gospel, this body of Christian faith which helps us enter into the mystery of suffering and redemption, will not be credible if the members of the body of Christ are not ready to enter into the suffering of others and accompany them."

"I’m hoping that the Catholic Church is going to be more present in our neighborhoods and our communities and that we are reaching out, because we believe in Jesus and love him so much that we want to share him with everyone and bring him to the lives of all, not just Catholics."

"I don't think I'm better than anyone. I'm a Christian. I just believe I can't kneel before anything besides God -- Jesus Christ. I chose not to kneel. I feel that if I did kneel, I would be being a hypocrite. I didn't want to be a hypocrite. Like I said, I didn't mean any ill will toward anyone."

"There’s this great mystery that I cannot understand — of how God decided He wanted to use me to try to be a witness to His love, to the importance of justice in our world, to the fact that the only way to true peace is when we all live and are striving to be just. That is what I’ve been trying to do for these past 50 year"

"I'm just a simple kid from south St. louis. I remember looking out the veranda of where the holy father lives and thinking how in the world did I get here? By the grace of God."

"A Catholic in major public office cannot not be a prominent example to others of how a Catholic lives the Gospel. That is the essence of evangelism."

"I think that with a lot of these institutions, those that have this different worldview have been shrewd, in a sense, in trying to take them over in terms of leadership and then to reorient them to form young people in ways that are contrary. It’s kind of contrary, some of the reaction we’ve gotten is almost like, ‘How could you dare do this?’ It’s as if not only do they have a right to their own vision of the human person and marriage and family life, but we have an obligation to turn our young people over to them to be formed in these values. We’re going to have to be much more vigilant as Christians and as Catholics about with whom we partner and who we invite in, particularly with regard to the formation of our young people."

"I’d also like to say to our priests: we can’t fail to talk to our people about these real sins that affect the lives of our people. If we talk about sins they don’t commit, of what good is that?"

"We need a new way of looking at and engaging in evangelization. It cannot be business as usual. We’ve seen a hemorrhaging of our young people from the Church. So in recent years, this has become another of my priorities. We have to take on the characteristics of an apostolic Church, rather than a church enjoying the glories of Christendom. Our focus must be to make Jesus Christ known and loved. Our pastors can’t be CEOs. We’re not a business. I’ve been pleased to see that many of our priests have responded well to the call for a New Evangelization."

"My mom always told me that the Good Lord gives to those who will re-invest in the community."

"State government works much better than probably most average Missourians think it does. The biggest thing that I realized — and it took me awhile to get this — was that the ability to change or to craft policy differences in this building takes a long time. At first, that's very aggravating to understand."

"To the extent that 1776 led to the resultant U.S., which came to captain the African Slave Trade—as London moved in an opposing direction toward a revolutionary abolition of this form of property—the much-celebrated revolt of the North American settlers can fairly be said to have eventuated as a counter-revolution of slavery."