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you can eliminate war. but you have to have militaries to prevent killers from killing the innocent. so most of what i saw through 9/11, wars are ubiquitous. were not at war against terror, no more than we were at war against the fa-- throughout history who have employed terror, and theres time honored methods to counter act it that involve the people who fund it and the people who allow sanctuary and the people who benefitted by it. i wish i could say that war is the worst of all huma...

then it would be history. it would be historical documentation. but to as much as possible represent the time that you come from -- what happens if somebody 50 years from now says there were no women in college or the ones that were here were just looking for husbands. she laughs. you think thats funny. but, come on, theyre misrepresenting who you were. and for anybody reading that from this point on, that is what they will believe. theyll believe that as fact. just a faraway example. ...

many played here for many years. it was a good ending for the black golfers and a first step in the desegregation of facilities in beaumont. the next summer, the same three black lawyers went after a bigger prize. they -- they went after the desegregation of lamar university here in beaumont, state university, four-year college. lamar university was, by charter, for white students only. so there were some black students applied for admission there. they were refused. and so the three b...

other people might come out of the hotel room when he was going in, so that these people did not see each other, and didnt have to acknowledge each others presence in the hotel. don james was a state representative. he was young and ambitious and idealistic, and there was a fear at that time that national organized crime was going to come in and take over parts of texas, and he and other members of the commission, it became named after him because he was the chairman, and the james com...

her and the relationship she describes sounds nothing like what was in the book, that they were close, literally they would sit and have tea together. could they have tea in front of other white people? no, they couldnt. i dont want to make myself feel good about it and think that everything worked out. no, because you dont even have that today. i think we have a responsibility. literature has a responsibility. and i think if we want to get a real picture of whats painted -- remember, ...