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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 19c094e | Trump continued, "I'd rather fight than fold, because as soon as you fold once, you get the reputation of being a folder." -- | Michael Kranish | ||
| 5f3d461 | He would insist on his right, his obligation, to tell it straight. His language, the belittling little "bye-bye" wave he gave when security guards ushered out protesters who shouted "You're a bigot!"--Trump would never apologize for that. He explained to the crowd, "I went to an Ivy League school. I'm very highly educated. . . . I don't have to be plainspoken. I have, like, this incredible vocabulary. But, honestly, how can I describe our l.. | Michael Kranish | ||
| 2522877 | Trump explained how the government had just filed suit, "saying we discriminated against blacks in some of our housing developments." Trump said he didn't discriminate, and he didn't want the government forcing him to rent to welfare recipients. "What do you think I should do?" "My view is tell them to go to hell and fight the thing in court and let them prove that you discriminated. . . . I don't think you have any obligation to rent to te.. | Michael Kranish | ||
| 6de6e11 | The work was done by hundreds of undocumented Polish immigrants known as the "Polish brigade." The men toiled through spring and summer of 1980 with sledgehammers and blowtorches, but without hard hats, working twelve- to eighteen-hour days, seven days a week, often sleeping on Bonwit Teller's floors. They were paid less than $5 an hour, sometimes in vodka. Many went unpaid and were threatened with deportation if they complained." | Michael Kranish | ||
| a08f9c1 | There is no secret" to success, Fred explained years later in accepting the Horatio Alger Award, given to people who overcame adversity. "There are just two things. One, you must like what you do. You must pick out the right business or profession. You must learn all about it . . . so you become enthusiastic about it. Nine out of ten people don't like what they do. And in not liking what they do, they lose enthusiasm, they go from job to jo.. | Michael Kranish | ||
| 4f32bf5 | He had lost patience with his father's strategy of catering to lower- and middle-income residents of Brooklyn and Queens, and what was required to manage them. When he found tenants throwing trash out of the windows, he began a program "to teach people about using the incinerators." Company employees warned him that he was "liable to get shot" if he tried to collect rent at the wrong time." | Michael Kranish | ||
| 21dcbd7 | Separately, Trump said, "I'm the least racist person that you've ever interviewed.")" | Michael Kranish | ||
| 93d781e | In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| b6d1993 | Everything but happiness is neurosis. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 76de4f1 | Freddy left the business and went to work as a pilot with Trans World Airlines. At age twenty-three, he married a stewardess, and the couple had two children, Fred and Mary. Freddy seemed far happier than he had been under his father; Donald, however, couldn't help but pick on Freddy's run-of-the-mill ambitions, asking him, "What's the difference between what you do and driving a bus?" | Michael Kranish | ||
| b058c70 | To Trump, winning was always paramount. "If I don't win, what have I done?" | Michael Kranish | ||
| 5c89992 | Despite his doubts, Fred came through, pledging his own equity toward his son's success--an early sign that although the father himself had no interest in taking on Manhattan, he would stand by his son, helping him at key moments in the formative years of Donald's career. Fred would also personally back construction loans from Manufacturers Hanover Trust, guaranteeing that the bankers would be paid even if Donald's venture collapsed. For | Michael Kranish | ||
| ec18252 | One Trump tenant disturbed by the de facto segregation was the Oklahoman Woodrow Wilson Guthrie--or Woody, as the folksinger was known. He had moved to New York City in 1940, the same year he wrote one of the nation's most revered ballads, "This Land Is Your Land." Ten years later, he had moved to Beach Haven, the Trump complex a few blocks from the Coney Island beachfront. Guthrie later wrote a number of verses that suggested Fred Trump wa.. | Michael Kranish | ||
| e220c8d | Trump had asserted to the Times that he was worth "more than $200 million," even though a year earlier, Penn Central negotiators had estimated the Trump family holdings at about $25 million, all of it under Fred's control. In December 1976, a month after that article appeared, Fred Trump opened eight trusts for his children and grandchildren and transferred in $1 million each. Over the next five years, Donald would reap about $440,000 in in.. | Michael Kranish | ||
| c615107 | Trump had this urge to be a really big name, so he cultivated celebrity. But his lifestyle was surprisingly unglamorous. He's quite disciplined in some ways. Doesn't smoke, doesn't drink, lives above the store. He was not a big New York socialite, never was. He basically enjoyed going upstairs and watching the tube. What he was interested in was celebrity and his businesses--construction, real estate, gambling, wrestling, boxing." *" | Michael Kranish | ||
| aad9d87 | Though he would later become known for the catchphrase "You're fired," Trump usually felt uneasy getting rid of an employee. If it had to be done, he would rather delegate the task to an underling. "We always felt that if you were close enough to Donald that he would have to be the one to let you go, you had a job for life," Res said. In" | Michael Kranish | ||
| a5a2b27 | People were always asking him who the real Donald Trump was--was the bombastic, boastful billionaire he played in the media merely a character designed to enhance his business? They didn't get it, he insisted. He was exactly what he presented to the public: a man of business, in it for himself, in it to win. He | Michael Kranish | ||
| 7178bd0 | The teacher, Charles Walker, who died in 2015, never told anyone in his family about a student's striking him. Yet Walker's contempt for Donald was clear. "He was a pain," Walker once said. "There are certain kids that need attention all the time. He was one of those." Just before his death, as he lay in bed in a hospice, Walker heard reports that Trump was considering a run for the presidency. "When that kid was ten," Walker told family me.. | Michael Kranish | ||
| 6e41ea6 | NORMA FOERDERER, TRUMP'S LONGTIME aide, rushed into the boss's office on the twenty-sixth floor of Trump Tower. The helicopter that carried the three executives had gone down. Agonizing minutes went by. Then a New Jersey police official called with the news: no survivors. Three of Trump's most trusted aides, including the ones most responsible for opening the Taj, had perished, along with the crew of two. Trump would later learn that the sc.. | Michael Kranish | ||
| 0939e5d | Many rich men don't allow their wives to come to their office. Many women don't know what their husbands do. | Michael Kranish | ||
| 4a8ef50 | The two sides projected competing nightmares of what would happen if the other side prevailed. | Ron Chernow | ||
| b4d789c | The good society is not one that ignores individual differences but one that deals with them wisely and humanely. | John W. Gardner | ||
| 38a9726 | But Grigsby had encountered stiff competition from RCA, which claimed to hold patents on radio tubes essential to the manufacture of modern radio equipment. Grigsby thus had to pay royalties to its staunchest competitor. Grigsby "loved CBS," Paley recalled in his memoir, "because they hated RCA," and RCA was the parent company of NBC." -- | John Dunning | ||
| 05ed4e4 | Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 26a98fa | With finely honed political instincts, George Clinton saw that Hamilton was overreaching, and he secretly aided King's candidacy in order to drive a wedge between the Schuylers and the Livingstons. When New York picked its second senator on July 16, 1789, Rufus King came out on top. Just as Clinton suspected, Chancellor Robert R. Livingston was irate and gradually moved into the governor's camp. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 85d4191 | Ecstasy is the moment of exaltation from wholeness! | Anaïs Nin | ||
| f7b1c39 | Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 614f8ca | I insist that the question of the future is how best to keep these millions from brooding over the wrongs of the past and difficulties of the present, so that all their energies may be bent toward a cheerful striving and cooperation with their white neighbors toward a larger, juster, and fuller future | W E B Du Bois | ||
| 96a261f | With other black boys the strife was not so fiercely sunny: their youth shrunk into tasteless sycophancy, or into silent hatred of the pale world about them and mocking distrust of everything white; or wasted itself in a bitter cry, Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable .. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 6d27e64 | Now, early in 1865, the war is over. The North does not especially want free Negroes, it wants trade and wealth. The South does not want a particular interpretation of the Constitution. It wants cheap Negro labor and the political and social power based on it. Had there been no Negroes, there would have been no war. Had no Negroes survived the war, peace would have been difficult because of hatred, loss and bitter fried. But its logical pat.. | capital civil-war class reconstrution | W E B Du Bois | |
| d3ef99a | Let us have peace." But there was the black man looming like a dark ghost on the horizon. He was the child of force and greed, and the father of wealth and war. His labor was indispensable, and the loss of it would have cost many times the cost of the war. If the Negro has been silent, his very presence would have announced his plight. He was not silence. He was in usual evidence. He was writing petitions, making speeches, parading with ret.. | class race racism reconstruction | W E B Du Bois | |
| db655bf | The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,--He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face. Through history, the powers of single black men flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 34cdf27 | For this much all men know: despite compromise, war, and struggle, the Negro is not free | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 10e73df | he question then comes: Is it possible, and probable, that nine millions of men can make effective progress in economic lines if they are deprived of political rights, made a servile caste, and allowed only the most meager chance for developing their exceptional men? | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 9179eee | no approximately correct history of civilization can ever be written which does not throw out in bold relief, as one of the great landmarks of political and social progress, the organization and administration of the Freedmen's Bureau. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 966b82e | As negroes moved from unionism toward political action, white labor in the North not only moved in the opposite direction from political action to union organization, but also evolved the American Blindspot for the Negro and his problems. It lost interest and vital touch with Southern labor and acted as though the millions of laborers in the South did not exist. Thus labor went into the great war of 1877 against Northern capitalists unsuppo.. | racism solidarity working-class | W E B Du Bois | |
| 73c8713 | C] an any sane man imagine that they will lightly lay aside their yearning and contentedly become he were of wood and drawers of water? | W E B Du Bois | ||
| ee83a55 | So flagrant became the political scandals that reputable men began to leave politics alone, and politics consequently became disreputable. Men began to pride themselves on having nothing to do with their own government, and to agree tacitly with those who regarded public office as a private perquisite. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 54884a4 | And the Nation echoed and enforced this self-criticism, saying: Be content to be servants, and nothing more; what need of higher culture for half-men? Away with the black man's ballot, by force or fraud,--and behold the suicide of a race! | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 34dd67d | I shirk not. I long for work. I pant for a life full of striving. I am no coward, to shrink before the rugged rush of the storm, nor even quail before the awful shadow of the Veil. But hearken, O Death! Is not this my life hard enough,--is not that dull land that stretches its sneering web about me cold enough,--is not all the world beyond these four little walls pitiless enough, but that thou must needs enter here,--thou, O Death? | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 2ee2b77 | A university is a human invention for the transmission of knowledge and culture from generation to generation, through the training of quick minds and pure hearts, and for this work no other human invention will suffice, not even trade and industrial schools. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 3d5287c | Discriminating and broad-minded criticism is what the South needs,--needs it for the sake of own white sons and so daughters, and for the insurance of robust, healthy mental and moral development. | W E B Du Bois | ||
| 1d5e82c | How many heartfuls of sorrow shall balance a bushel of wheat? How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real! And all this life and love and strife and failure,--is it the twilight of nightfall or the flush of some faint-dawning day? | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 1626e4c | With the military industrial complex and the prison industrial complex working together in these ways there is a continuous, intensifying coordination of power between Lockdown America at home and imperial Pax Americana abroad. We need to feel these connections conceptually and viscerally, as did W. E. B. Du Bois in his time, because it surfaces not only coordinated powers of domination but a network of shared suffering by those exploited a.. | Mark Lewis Taylor |