Alistair Cooke: Place

Alistair Cooke was British journalist and broadcaster. Explore interesting quotes on place.

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“(The Negro) is a permanent invalid in American society. And the places he lives, whether in the town or the country, are its casualty wards.”

Source: Alistair Cooke's America (1973), p. 146.

“Even the prospect of early annihilation should not keep us from making the most of our days on this unhappy planet. In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. And it would be a crime against Nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were presumably designed in the first place, and which the gravest statesmen and the hoarsest politicians hope to make available to all men in the end: I mean the opportunity to do good work, to fall in love, to enjoy friends, to sit under trees, to read, to hit a ball and bounce the baby.”

One Man's America (1952).
Quoted in "The Very Moving Day", Season 6, Episode 1 of All in the Family (1975)

“Moving among wretched people in mean places, as I often saw him do, he had the impulses of a saint but not the serenity.”

About Adlai Stevenson
Six Men (1977)