Balto Quotes

Ak, sužavi mane liguistai gyvybingas spalio mėnesio žalumas. Patraukia širdį smaragdinė springstanti rasom šio rudenio žolė. Bet reikia dar baltos! - tolygiai prašmatniai ir nesveikai džiaugsmingos. O! štai jau mano siela žydi kaip didžiulė ir balta beprasmiška gėlė.

A dog can not make this journey alone, but maybe a wolf can.

Police containment of vice to black neighborhoods had other effects, as well. For one, it reinforced racist perceptions of black people as unfit for urban life.

depriving prisoners of sleep, banging rubber hoses across a suspect’s abdomen, placing a box over an individual’s head and filling it with tear gas, applying acid to genitals, hanging prisoners upside down by their ankles or beating them with poles to the point of eyeball dislocation and blindness

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But representation is not the same thing as power, and the hiring of a few black officers was an ambiguous victory.

while twice as many blacks than whites had been murdered and injured in the riot, twice as many blacks were arrested and indicted.

In the face of the Depression’s ravages, Chicago criminalized human misery.

The criminalization of black property violence in the sixties, compared with the failure to assertively criminalize white interpersonal violence in the fifties, is worth remembering.

In the buildup to the 1919 riot, for instance, Wells had implored the city to do something to punish white terrorists targeting black homes for bombing. As we have seen, they did nothing.

The dentist wiggled the drill from side to side as the prisoner writhed in pain. The officers pledged to have him do the same to every last tooth in the suspect’s head. The suspect confessed.

Everywhere I went, it was Balto this and Balto that. Truth to tell, I knew Balto well enough. He was in my kennel. He was owned, bred, raised, and trained by Sepp, same as I was. Sepp called Balto nothing but a scrub freight dog. Don't get me wrong, he was a nice-enough fellow. But he was no racer. And he didn't have a whole lot going on upstairs. What he had was luck. It was luck, pure and simple, that he happened to be leading the team that made the last leg of the Serum Run.

He thought back to dog sledding as a boy. During the day he scouted Doc’s property in wheeled sleds through thousands of acres of switchgrass, dirt, and live oaks. At night he sat with King by a small fire, even in the summer, and read books like the Call of the Wild, Winterdance, and Stone Fox. He read aloud to King the great adventures of Balto and the race to Nome, and stories of the un adulterated wild by John Muir.

Es tan fácil deslumbrarse. Pienso en los latinoamericanos que se transformaron en falsos exóticos dentro de la cultura europea. Todo con tal de ser aceptados y amados, como pájaros. Muchos tienen la falsa premisa que aquí encontraron su verdadera casa. Ser un salvaje inteligente. Ser sólo inteligente y venir de “terra ignota” es meterse en un espacio controlado y ocupado por el poder cultural europeo o norteamericano. Incluso en Latinoamérica hay países que controlan tal tema. Ser centroamericano es ser invisible, periférico. Los centroamericanos somos como una familia numerosa que comparte una sola cama y un solo baño. La casa sin barrer en ciertos rincones, pero salimos al centro comercial y nos vestimos de paseo. Venimos de El Salvador, de Guatemala, de Nicaragua, de Honduras, de Costa Rica, en lugar de decir, venimos de Centroamérica y ubicarnos mejor en el mundo. En Dinamarca despierto una curiosidad antropológica conmovedora. Saben de la guerra. Un amigo argentino me pregunta, -Ché, pero escriben filosofía, creí que sólo sufrían.

I noticed a stuffed spaniel poised by the fireplace with a yellowed newspaper rolled into its mouth. Madeleine said, "That's Balto. The paper is the LA Times for August 1, 1926. That's the day Daddy learned he' d made his first million. Balto was our pet then. Daddy's accountant called up and said, "Emmett, you're a millionaire!" Daddy was cleaning his pistols, and Balto came in with the paper. Daddy wanted to consecrate the moment, so he shot him. If you look closely, You can see the bullet hole in his chest.

I noticed a stuffed spaniel poised by the fireplace with a yellowed newspaper rolled into its mouth. Madeleine said, "That's Balto. The paper is the LA Times for August 1, 1926. That's the day Daddy learned he' d made his first million. Balto was our pet then. Daddy's accountant called up and said, "Emmett, you're a millionaire!" Daddy was cleaning his pistols, and Balto came in with the paper. Daddy wanted to consecrate the moment, so he shot him. If you look closely, You can see the bulet hole in his chest.

Ikvienā mājā starp sievietēm un vīriešiem valda vai nu karš, vai pamiers, vai īslaicīgi kāds izkar balto padošanās karogu. Visur kāds kādam piedod, kāds kādu krāpj, dievina, pazemo, žēlo, sāpina, sit un mierina.

Sleep my baby, rock-a-bye, On the edge you must not lie. Wolf the Fluffy roams astray, Will he grab you, drag away? Into Furthest Darkest Woods, Hide you under Willow roots? There birdies chirp and squeak, Will they let you fall asleep?

Vila the White, Built a City up height, Not in the Heavens, not on the ground, But on the edge of a Cloud, Vila the White, Put defenses the bright: Gold defends the heights, Sun defends the gate, Moon defends the City when it's late, Vila the White, Stood with Sun at sight, Watching what comes from the bay, And saw Lightning and Thunder play, Vila the White, Wed her son on Moon at night, And gave her daughter to Gold, as bride, They have couple brothers, she's their brother's wife.

Tulpės Raudonos, margos, gelsvos, baltos Pražydo tulpės visos kartu, - Vėliavos iš žolių iškeltos Raudonos, margos, gelsvos, baltos... Kad nebegrįžtų naktys šaltos Ir pievų kruša neužbertų, - Raudonos, margos, gelsvos, baltos Pražydo tulpės visos kartu.

The most explosive growth of police power would not come until the mid-1950s, however, and when it did, it was predictably spurred most significantly by political battles in the city.

By 1970 the CPD’s budget was more than 900 percent larger than in 1945, approaching $200 million per year. By the mid-seventies, the city was spending one-quarter of its budget on its police.46 It bears knowing that it was over the course of that same period that the urban crisis began to wreak further havoc on black Chicago’s educational infrastructure, housing markets, and employment sectors, hurling citizens on the margins into deeper states of deprivation and desperation. And it is surely worth considering that as that happened, the one major investment that Daley and the city council made in those neighborhoods was to send in more police.

O man nėra nei „juodo“, nei „balto“ darbo. Tik dykaduoniai, tinginiai ir pastumdėliai suskirstė darbą į „juodą“ ir „balt ą“. Kiekvienas sąžiningai atliekamas naudingas darbas yra vienodai šventas, kilnus ir garbingas.

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One interesting observation that has been made about the Germanic and Balto-Slavic languages is that they also seem to have inherited a taboo associated with the name of the bear, which in Proto-Indo-European was something like “*hrktos” (hence Greek Arctos and Latin Ursus). In Northern Europe, however, it seems that the Germanic and Balto-Slavic peoples used circumlocutions or “nicknames” for the bear. Thus, in Germanic languages, the old Indo-European word for bear has been replaced by a circumlocution meaning “The Brown One.” In Slavic languages like Russian, they say “Medved” which means “Honey Eater.” Very similarly, the original word for bear in Lithuanian has been replaced by “Lokys” which may mean “Breaker.

So we may say that the Zoryas can all appear identical, but one has a malicious streak, and another is not a “biological” daughter of the Sea King at all, but a sister of the Sun. This contradicts the Nart Sagas, which portray Zerasha as a daughter of Dobettyr the Sea God. This could be an attempt to reconcile a celestial Balto-Slavic genealogy with an Iranian one, where the maiden was said to be the daughter of the Sea God. If she is a half-sister of the other Zoryas, then who is her mother? It’s probably in Romania where the parentage is most clear: The mother of the Woods is the mother of Zorila (Dawn), Murgila (Dusk), and Miazanoapte (Midnight).81 This “Mother of the Woods” or Mamapadurei is a figure of Romanian folklore who lives in a forest, in a hut that revolves on fowl’s legs, and a fence stuck full of skulls. She kidnaps children, and generally corresponds to Baba Yaga.

The time has come when the police of this city must be made to realize that the constitutional rights of the commonest citizen cannot be trampled upon with impunity. The time has come for a redistribution of justice.

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A new organization, the Chicago Citizens’ Police Committee, was thus convened to conduct that study, and brought together some of Chicago’s leading lights in criminology, law, and sociology.119 That committee was not predisposed to meaningful racial empathy.

The study was also devoid of any finding that indicated that those police problems extended to racism, abuse, or harassment. Anything that ran contrary to the CCC’s tough-on-crime philosophy was left unexplored.

Over the course of forty-five months from July 1917 to March 1921, white citizens and neighborhood associations bombed fifty-eight homes — all of them belonging to black people moving to white areas, or to people who had rented to or brokered such deals for blacks.

In 1919, prior to the riot, Police Chief John Garrity told an incredulous Ida Wells-Barnett that he “could not put all the police in Chicago on the South Side to protect the homes of colored people,” which seemed, in so many ways, as good as saying that the bombs were not his problem.

Chicago in 1919 spiraled into racial fury, provoking questions about policing, racism, and justice. A century later, those questions have yet to be fully answered.

Many lockups lacked sewage systems other than a floor-length trough through which rivers of piss, shit, and vomit ran.

And within the riot’s terrible violence, the police department revealed itself as an institution that would not work well for black people.

But the changes wrought flowed from the activism of white elites trying to guide it toward a more assertive tough-on-crime approach.

Meanwhile, some articulated this as a better age — a hanging moment in time before police-community relationships fell from a precipice.

Crowds gathered. But Callahan refused to see Stauber arrested, and a short while later, he turned around and arrested one of the men shouting for Stauber’s arrest.

Responsibility extended far beyond one man, but the bloodletting began with Callahan.

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Those of our group living in other parts of the city,” the Defender mourned, eulogizing two black men beaten to death in the Loop and criticizing the CPD’s approach to the violence, “were left to the mercy of the hoodlum.

After they got them jobs, party operatives instructed police officers on which lines to toe, which laws to enforce (or not enforce), who to lean on or off of.

Gas lighting is common, and electric lighting is a rarity.

But despite Old Settlers’ complaints about working-class migrants’ public behavior (anything from loud talking to open-air drinking), Chicago’s rigid racial-spatial boundaries meant that they could seldom move to areas better suited to their tastes.

Disgusted with the state-orchestrated parade of black faces charged with riot-related crime, the grand jury took a nearly unprecedented stand, going on strike until more white people were brought forward for indictment.

Like saloons and other “animated places” (as the CCRR put it), “white proprietors … brought them into the district, and many of them are patronized largely by crowds from other parts of the city. [They] are forced on the colored people.

South Side life could be traumatizing for the thousands of citizens who wanted to avoid the loitering, gambling, prostitution, drug use, and drinking that spread as a consequence of city policy and inequality.

Being a child couldn’t even keep you safe.

Mayor Bill Thompson was vacationing in Wyoming, and he’d insisted on bringing Police Commissioner John Garrity with him, leaving Chicago without its top law enforcement official when the riot exploded.

So-called Old Settlers — people who tended to have been in Chicago prior to the Great Migration, and who self-identified as more refined and of a better moral class — routinely inveighed against the impoverished moral sense of the thousands of new migrants pouring in from the rural South, and implored them to be, simply, better.

Indeed, they were so tethered to city politics that their offices weren’t even attached to police headquarters but sat in city hall adjacent to the mayor’s office.

Seeing these activities as affronts to public order, politicians and police forces responded.

As this and the following chapters should make clear, there is an interrogation to be made about what happens when marginalized citizens seek justice and, in so doing, disrupt the status quo.

O štai jaunosios raganos sodelis tvarkomas visai ne pagal jos skonį - statulėlės, šventyklėlės, fontanėliai, angeliukai, suoleliai lankytojams, fejerverkai, amžinosios ugnys norintiems prie jos pasišildyti. Viskas iš geriausių norų, viskas su šventu fondo įsitikinimu, kad ją tai turi labai džiuginti... O iš tikrųjų visa tai, ko ji norėjo, tėra baltos pakalnutės mėnesienoje, kuriomis galėtų gėrėtis pro langą vilkėdama savo mėgstamiausią raudoną suknelę.

So lax was the police response to the bombings that the Chicago branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) took it upon itself (without success) to do the police’s job for them;

the sight of a raft of black boys floating into white waters enraged people on Twenty-Ninth Street. A man named George Stauber began hurling rocks — stone after stone raining down on and around the raft and the boys clinging to it. Amid the hailstorm, Eugene Williams went under. By the time divers reached him, he was dead.

he asked a nearby police officer to help him get home and protect him from the white mobs. Instead, the officer escorted him to a police station, where he was tossed in a holding cell.

In an extreme crisis, men and women hoped for some level of kindness (or at least adherence to sworn duty) from the police officers they turned to for protection. All too often, what they received instead was ambivalence, vitriol, or violence.

(Future mayor Richard Daley was a member of the Hamburg Club during the riot, and would later become its president.

On the decentralization of big city police departments more generally during this period, see Fogelson, Big-City Police, esp. 97–98.

When Thompson returned to the city, he and Lowden (both Republicans, and intense political rivals) locked horns instead of cooperating,

On the Great Migration in a broader view, see Wilkerson, Warmth of Other Suns; Gregory, Southern Diaspora; Lemann, Promised Land; and Berlin, Making of African America, chap. 4.

Although their white counterparts did not always see them doing so, they helped shape the city, just as the city shaped them.

Historians still disagree somewhat on the degrees to which agency and constraint respectively shaped the process and outcome of this ghettoization. Exclusion and proscription weighed heavy on the housing question, as migrants found themselves hemmed in by the machinations of white supremacist housing policies, threats, and economic deprivation.

Yes, the Great Migration of which so many black Chicagoans were a part was in many ways emancipatory in its vision and redemptive in its relief from Jim Crow’s worst horrors. But it was also, in its brute realities, something in which people’s freedom dreams were frequently, punishingly bridled.

The city could have chosen to combat the effects. The Democratic machine, under Richard Daley especially, had its hands on so many different levers of power that it could have worked harder to stave off the effects of crisis. That it didn’t (and doesn’t) is a product of politicians’ priorities and political will, and of how they viewed the importance of some communities relative to others.

Cermak believed that public order needed to be maintained at all costs — a vision that Ed Kelly would inherit.

Indeed, for the first two years of the Depression, the CPD didn’t even log (or, at least, didn’t make publicly available) what are called “offenses known to the police”— essentially, reported crime.

Imagine the plight of the fourteen-year-old Chicago boy, shot in the leg by a storeowner and subsequently arrested by CPD officers after he was caught trying to steal something to eat.

The policy enterprise kept legitimate businesses alive, charities open, and pride intact in the possibility of black autonomy, since most elite policy wheel owners (commonly known simply as policy kings or kingpins) proved willing to reinvest their windfall profits back into the community

Thwarting standard assumptions about machine politicians exchanging favors for votes, Cermak’s approach to black Chicago relied on sticks, not carrots. And he charged CPD officers with carrying the sticks.

Prefiguring practices that will sound very familiar to modern observers, Stege’s officers stopped and searched cars at random and busted down the doors of private residences throughout the South Side’s black neighborhoods.

Invoking a trope common among anti-Communists, he ridiculed radical activity as the fault of “outside agitators,” rather than the organic response of angry and desperate people.

Weekly if not daily during the worst throes of the Depression, black Chicagoans confronted a rapacious economic order, a racist relief system, and relentless city-sanctioned police violence, and they refused to be broken by it.

(It is worth noting too that the 1930s NAACP took a zero-sum outlook on black politics: either they would lead the fight for black rights, or the Communists would.

There is no evidence that a critical mass of black people sought the actual overthrow of capitalism itself, so much as they sought a way to live with some modicum of stability and comfort.

If the Communists’ point was that the police system was part of a larger repressive apparatus, the association’s was that police officers should know the distinction between upstanding and troublesome members of the community.

Ce qui est sûr, c'est qu'on est peut être au pays des droits de l'homme mais certainement pas au pays des droits de l'homme pauvre.