Huie Quotes

A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.

Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.

The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys.

Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life. It Really Is.

Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.

Grant that I may radiate Thy Light, Thy Love, Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace to all those around me and all those in my thoughts this day and ever more.

May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.

The magic words for a great relationship are, “I love you just the way you are.

You are my ground and you are my rainbow. You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy. You are the start of my journeys and always my destination. You are my home - the place to which I always return.

But remember that in order to symbolize everything to everyone, you will be both loved and hated.

Today is your day to paint life in bold colors; set today’s rhythm with your heart-drum; walk today’s march with courage; create today as your celebration of life.

May your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.

Today is your day to dance lightly with life. Sing wild songs of adventure. Invite rainbows and butterflies out to play. Soar your spirit and unfurl your joy.

I am one with the Earth, with the Water, with the Fire, with the Air that I breathe, with all Living Things, and we are all one with Spirit.

Quotations are dead unless a spur for inquiry. The greatest value of quotations is as a source of questions - to get us thinking about new ideas. Open minds - open hearts.

Virginia Woolf killed herself. She was a lesbian—or maybe she was just a woman writer.

Books are weapons in the war of ideas.

I made the best mistakes. It was not like the sun came up or I stopped crying or I had any more power within me. It was not like all those sensual metaphors of awakening that keep you chained to hope. I still go to bed at night and hate—and hate knowing that the world's a mirror.

Slovik was arrested in October after living for weeks with a Canadian unit. Offered amnesty if he went to the front, he refused, vowing, “I’ll run away again if I have to.” He was convicted following a two-hour court-martial in the Hürtgen Forest on November 11. From a jail cell in Paris he appealed his death sentence to Eisenhower in a six-paragraph clemency plea. “How can I tell you how humbley sorry I am for the sins I’ve comitted.… I beg of you deeply and sincerely for the sake of my dear wife and mother back home to have mercy on me,” he wrote, according to the author William Bradford Huie. “I Remain Yours for Victory, Pvt. Eddie D. Slovik.” Unfortunately for the condemned, the supreme commander reviewed the petition at the nadir of the Bulge, on December 23, during a session in his Versailles office known as “the Hanging Hour.” Eisenhower not only affirmed the sentence, but decreed that as a lesson to shirkers it be carried out by Slovik’s putative unit, the 109th Infantry Regiment, in General Dutch Cota’s 28th Division.

The story had been in the making for three months. The author was William Bradford Huie, a forty-five-year-old nationally known journalist, author, and television personality from Hartselle, Alabama.

I am one with the Earth, with the Water, with the Fire, with the Air that I breathe, with all Living Things, and we are all one with Spirit.” Jonathan Lockwood Huie

the January 21, 1956, edition of the Baltimore Afro-American, he published another such letter, this time prompted by the Huie revelations. This one was directed

Huie did fill his contract with the New American Library, producing the book Wolf Whistle, and Other Stories in 1959.

The script still sits unproduced in Huie’s papers at Ohio State University.66

For example, the Defender source noted that the cotton gin where the men got the fan was called the Progressive Ginning Company, located nearly three and a half miles from the town of Cleveland, in Bolivar County. Huie named

The articles were written by a journalist under the pseudonym Amos Dixon. An introductory note in the first installment described Dixon as a white southerner who had covered the murder trial in Sumner and “talked freely to those who knew what happened.”79 Unlike Huie, Dixon maintained that Milam and Bryant had accomplices, and he names them. His account aligns more closely with the testimonies of Willie Reed, Mandy Bradley, and Add Reed, which “Shocking Story” ignored completely. Midway through publication of the series, a thirty-five-page booklet appeared, titled Time Bomb: Mississippi Exposed and the Full Story of Emmett Till, and it told a similar story as Dixon had provided. It was written by Olive Arnold Adams, wife of New York Age Defender publisher Julius Adams. A seven-page chapter dealt specifically with the Till case.80 Dr.

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They decided to kill the boy and throw the body in the Tallahatchie River. What Milam needed most was a weight. There was a cotton gin nearby where they had just brought in some new equipment, and he remembered some workers carrying out the old gin fan, about three feet long: the perfect anchor. They drove over to the cotton gin and found the fan. By then it was daylight and Milam boasted to Huie, for the first time, that he was a little nervous. “Somebody might see us and accuse us of stealing the fan,” he said. Then he and Bryant took Till to a deserted bank of the Tallahatchie. Milam made the boy strip naked. “You still as good as I am?” “Yeah,” Till answered. At that point, Milam shot him in the head with the .45. Then they wired him to the gin fan, which weighed seventy-four pounds, and they tossed the body in the Tallahatchie River.

According to William Bradford Huie, Milam later justified Till’s lynching using the terms of violent racial and sexual politics: Just as long as I live and can do anything about it, niggers are going to stay in their place. Niggers ain’t gonna vote where I live. If they did, they’d control the government