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A ship doesn't sink because it is in the ocean in the midst of a storm. It only sinks when the hull is breached, and the ocean get inside it.
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Arthur Jackson Jr. (Out of the Darkness: One mans journey from a New Orleans gangster to a Licensed Minister.)
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Rumor has it you've run through a few men in your time."
"Rumor has it I've done quite a few things." Adam rolled his eyes.
"Fought a duel on the floor of the House of Lords, for example," Harry said.
"Ridiculous."
"Shot the pistol out of a man's hands in a duel without so much as winging him," Harry continued.
Adam nodded. "Twice."
"Bested Gentleman Jackson."
Adam smiled at the memory. That has been extremely gratifying.
"Bloodied Poisenby's nose at a ball." Harry was smiling. He'd been there for that now-famous occurence.
"Broke his nose." Adam amended.
"Walked out of Lords in the middle of a speech by Addington."
"The man was being obtuse," Adam said.
"He was the prime minister," Harry pointed out.
Adam just shrugged.
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Sarah M. Eden (Seeking Persephone (The Lancaster Family, #1))
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a tragic roster of activists and innocents had died for the crime of being black or supporting blacks in their state. There was Willie Edwards Jr., the truck driver forced off a bridge to his death by four Klansmen in Montgomery. There was William Lewis Moore, the man from Baltimore shot and killed in Attalla while trying to walk a letter denouncing segregation 385 miles to the governor of Mississippi. There were four young girls, Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley, killed by the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. There was thirteen-year-old Virgil Lamar Ware, shot to death on the handlebars of his brother’s bicycle in the same city. There was Jimmie Lee Jackson, beaten and shot by state troopers in Marion while he tried to protect his mother and grandfather during a protest. There was the Reverend James Reeb, the Unitarian minister beaten to death in Selma. There was Viola Gregg Liuzzo, shot by Klansmen while trying to ferry marchers between Selma and Montgomery. There was Willie Brewster, shot to death while walking home in Anniston. There was Jonathan Myrick Daniels, a seminarian registering black voters who was arrested for participating in a protest and then shot by a deputy sheriff in Hayneville. There was Samuel Leamon Younge Jr., murdered by a gas station owner after arguing about segregated restrooms.
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Casey Cep (Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee)
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The Sherwood Forest Chronicles
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1. If Robin Hood steals from the rich, doesn't that make them poor? Does he give them their money back? I mean, what the point of robbing to begin with if your mission statement is logically flawed?
2. If the Sheriff of Nottingham is such an asshole, why isn’t he the Prime Minister of Nottingham?
3. Why don’t I see elves here? Did all the elves of Sherwood Forest migrate to New Zealand to become extras on the Peter Jackson’s Hobbit films?
4. Does Little John even know what an oxymoron is?
5. If Smokey the Bear came to Sherwood Forest to make a public service announcement about preventing forest fires, would he leave with arrows in his ass or would the Merry Men feast on bear meat for several days? And what makes the Merry Men merry in the first place?
6. What do you think? Does Robin Hood shop at Walmart or Target?
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Beryl Dov
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RESILIENCE QUESTIONNAIRE Please circle the most accurate answer under each statement: 1. I believe that my mother loved me when I was little. Definitely true Probably true Not sure Probably not true Definitely not true 2. I believe that my father loved me when I was little. Definitely true Probably true Not sure Probably not true Definitely not true 3. When I was little, other people helped my mother and father take care of me and they seemed to love me. Definitely true Probably true Not sure Probably not true Definitely not true 4. I’ve heard that when I was an infant someone in my family enjoyed playing with me, and I enjoyed it, too. Definitely true Probably true Not sure Probably not true Definitely not true 5. When I was a child, there were relatives in my family who made me feel better if I was sad or worried. Definitely true Probably true Not sure Probably not true Definitely not true 6. When I was a child, neighbors or my friends’ parents seemed to like me. Definitely true Probably true Not sure Probably not true Definitely not true 7. When I was a child, teachers, coaches, youth leaders, or ministers were there to help me. Definitely true Probably true Not sure Probably not true Definitely not true 8. Someone in my family cared about how I was doing in school. Definitely true Probably true Not sure Probably not true Definitely not true 9. My family, neighbors, and friends talked often about making our lives better. Definitely true Probably true Not sure Probably not true Definitely not true 10. We had rules in our house and were expected to keep them. Definitely true Probably true Not sure Probably not true Definitely not true 11. When I felt really bad, I could almost always find someone I trusted to talk to. Definitely true Probably true Not sure Probably not true Definitely not true 12. When I was a youth, people noticed that I was capable and could get things done. Definitely true Probably true Not sure Probably not true Definitely not true 13. I was independent and a go-getter. Definitely true Probably true Not sure Probably not true Definitely not true 14. I believed that life is what you make it. Definitely true Probably true Not sure Probably not true Definitely not true How many of these fourteen protective factors did I have as a child and youth? (How many of the fourteen were circled “Definitely True” or “Probably True”?) _______ Of these circled, how many are still true for me?
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Donna Jackson Nakazawa (Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal)
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presidential campaign between Jackson and Adams had been vicious. Jackson’s forces had charged that Adams, as minister to Russia, had procured a woman for Czar Alexander I. As president, Adams was alleged to have spent too much public money decorating the White House, buying fancy china and a billiard table. The anti-Jackson assaults were more colorful. Jackson’s foes called his wife a bigamist and his mother a whore, attacking him for a history of dueling, for alleged atrocities in battles against the British, the Spanish, and the Indians—and for being a wife stealer who had married Rachel before she
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Jon Meacham (American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House)
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Back to what I was saying before: guns were messy. Tonight, when I killed Cabinet Minister Jackson, I left my DNA in every place I could before I left.
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Poppy Rhys (Tempest (Valos of Sonhadra, #2))
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I am cursed,” says Mulaghesh, “with an abundance of things I wish to say, as we are well aware, Prime Minister.
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Robert Jackson Bennett (City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3))
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[Jimmie Lee Jackson] was murdered by every white minister of the gospel who has remained silent behind the safe security of his stained-glass windows. He was murdered by the irresponsibility of every politician … who has fed his constituents the stale bread of hatred and the spoiled meat of racism. He was murdered by the timidity of a federal government that is willing to spend millions of dollars a day to defend freedom in Vietnam but cannot protect the rights of its citizens at home. He was murdered by every sheriff who practices lawlessness in the name of law. He was murdered by the cowardice of every Negro who passively accepts the evils of segregation and stands on the sidelines in the struggle for justice. Two
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Jonathan Eig (King: A Life)
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A northern minister writing in the Methodist magazine Behold concluded after returning from a Sunday with Ed King’s church visitors, “What has happened in Jackson, Mississippi not only dramatizes the segregated nature of the church and its false unity, but also reveals that the church has capitulated to the culture in which it dwells…. The church, like a chameleon, blends in with its background so that it loses its identity.”101 The white church that sanctified and blessed the Southern Way of Life preached a gospel of comfort. A pleasing correlation adhered between proclamation and culture; and in any case, those untamed or sinful elements in culture which threatened piety’s innocence were reproached by a faith almost completely purified of compassion’s harder demands.
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Charles Marsh (God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights)
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who are the great Christians of all time? Well, list them! Augustine, Calvin, Luther, Huss, Whitefield, Wesley, Spurgeon...what am I doing? I'm listing ministers! Preachers! Professional theologians! And we think those are the great Christians of all time. And Jesus is saying, ‘No, that's not how you measure greatness in the kingdom of God.’ He says, ‘Let Me tell you, let Me tell you what greatness is like. Whoever gives a cup of water to drink, whoever gives a cup of water to drink because he belongs to Christ will by no means lost his reward.’ A cup of cold water! ========== Mark 9.38-42 For or Against First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi
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Anonymous
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France’s prime minister during the Great War, who had been dubbed ‘le Père la Victoire’ – Father of Victory.
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Julian T. Jackson (France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain)
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A Presbyterian minister, in speaking, told the women repeatedly that they must not assume ecclesiastical functions. This got me riled, and in reply, I tried to make it plain that the Lord God alone gives the limit to the functions of women's work.
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Fanny Jackson Coppin (Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching (African American Women Writers, 1910-1940))
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In 1828, the Duke of Wellington, hero of Waterloo, became prime minister of the United Kingdom. In South America, Uruguay gained national independence. Japan suffered its second-worst natural disaster in 1828, when the Siebold Typhoon killed ten thousand people. On May 26, 1828, in Nuremburg, Germany, a mysterious child named Kaspar Hauser made headlines when he appeared out of nowhere, walking the streets in a daze. In the United States, Andrew Jackson defeated John Quincy Adams in one of the bitterest presidential elections in American history. Jackson's candidacy established a new political party: the Democratic Party.
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Peter Kurtz (Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865)
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1828, the Duke of Wellington, hero of Waterloo, became prime minister of the United Kingdom. In South America, Uruguay gained national independence. Japan suffered its second-worst natural disaster in 1828, when the Siebold Typhoon killed ten thousand people. On May 26, 1828, in Nuremburg, Germany, a mysterious child named Kaspar Hauser made headlines when he appeared out of nowhere, walking the streets in a daze. In the United States, Andrew Jackson defeated John Quincy Adams in one of the bitterest presidential elections in American history. Jackson's candidacy established a new political
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Peter Kurtz (Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865)
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had let it be known to all prospective clients that the reason the Israeli Minister had been eliminated, and Mossad had been
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J. Jackson Bentley (48 Hours)