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...which would do the most to help the family. The judge reduced the parents' felony charges to a misdemeanor. "It's good for us," said Eliezer, instructing his family to hug for the camera. Linda just lay down on her mother's lap. "Estoy cansada. Quiero dormir. Dejame quieta" -- I'm tired. I want to sleep. Leave me alone...
This is a departure from the usual Southern custom of quieta non movere in interracial matters. The notorious inequality of educational opportunities in the South is not realized by the Northerner. Nor is it generally comprehended this side the Mason-Dixon line that state institutions in the South, however liberal, cannot, with the present temper of feeling against the negro, dare to open their gates to him. Regardless of what constitutes ideal justice, any attempt at mixing the races in so crucial a concern as education would be certain to arouse a resentment both bitter and dangerous. Even...
...ripened 51 years, Dean Stone is solidly built, clean shaven, energetic, quieta business man and a scholar. At college he played centre on the football eleven.- Now his only outdoor sport is fishing. For recreation he reads serious books. His love of work is insatiable...
America has hit the up trail. It has graduated from a president who thought "I am the State." It now has one who believes "quieta non movere." It has a Titus Oates all its own. Some think it has been "conquering Japan on the oil-fields of California." Soon there will fly from the top of the Capital the proud boast of the country's state-men: "America expects every man to do (and say) his dirtiest...
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