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...John Connally declined to run in 1968 not only because he was fed up; we, the voters, were also fed up. Texas politics is a cesspool, and John Connally is one of the biggest stinkers in it. Connally is the kind of man who could and would eat a deluxe meal in front of a starving child if it would benefit him politically...
...buying a drink were punishable as crimes, yet now the Government generally accepts such behavior and even sponsors it, via state liquor stores and lotteries. As to prostitution, then, may we not rely on the good sense of St. Thomas Aquinas? "Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace," he said. "Do away with the cesspool, and the palace will become an unclean and stinking place...
Redesigning Things. The college was originally named for Richard T. Crane, a white manufacturer of plumbing equipment, which prompted Hurst to declare the decrepit school he took over "an educational cesspool." After an eight-month battle with the board of the Chicago City Colleges, Hurst got Crane renamed for Malcolm X, raised the green, red and black flag of black liberation next to the U.S. and Illinois flags, and won the trust of Chicago's black radicals. Black Panther Leader Fred Hampton had been a student the semester before he was killed in a police shootout. This year, Hurst...
...loss of innocence. I came here, very naively, to find a glittering community of moral (though perhaps misguided) men and women. I found a cesspool of egomaniacs who are far more interested in themselves, Art, Science, Zen, Catholicism or marijuana than they are in stopping the slaughter we are committing over there. And I found that I was one of them. I came to the right place. Not better or worse than other places, perhaps, but cosmically bigger. Other places aspire to produce Henry Kissingers...
...always menaced, from knowing that you may die any minute-a blow from behind from another inmate, a shot from a guard's rifle-from knowing that your "privilege" of writing letters may be revoked at the guard's discretion, that you may drop without a trace into the cesspool of the prison system, of the hole, isolation, solitary. It is the style of guerilla field diaries. If George Jackson had not been the sort of man, honest, uncompromising and brilliant, that his letters reveal him to be, he would not have been considered a trouble-maker by the prison...