We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.
Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is...
My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years but there was something about the way they lived I really admired.
