American Journalist Quotes

Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women.

In every state and nearly every civilized nation in the developed world, readers know where to go for action and reaction of news – at least one day ahead... Free from any corporate concerns, there are simply too many to thank since the site's inception in 1994. This new attempt at the old American experiment of full freedom in reporting is ever exciting. Those in power have everything to lose by individuals who march to their own rules.

I get letters from people who say, 'What have you got against women?' What could I possibly have against women? I've married three of them.

And each time I pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that the picture might survive through the years, with the hope that they might echo through the minds of men in the future - causing them caution and remembrance and realization.

W. Eugene Smith

No man can feel himself alone
The while he bravely stands
Between the best friends ever known
His two good, honest hands.

One of the problems with NPR is that there is so much political correctness that if you've got a name that looks like it was made up by Rudyard Kipling, you've got a better chance of getting hired. I'm a white guy named Tony Snow, for heaven's sake. That's as white as it goes.

The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.

Prejudice, the floating wreckage of chattel slavery, rises ever to the surface of the turbulent waters of a Nation's life, obstructing each best attempt toward a safe course to its highest citizenship.

Olivia Ward Bush-Banks

The Book of Nature is issued only in uncut editions, and the scientist has to open its pages one by one as he reads.

We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich.... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them.

George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel.

Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training or book learning, because all the theory in the world means nothing if you can't read the street.

Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.

In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.

John Chancellor

We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.

All you ever want to do is remind me that I am black. But goddamn it, I also am.

John A. Williams

The country of the aged is a land few people think very hard and seriously about before the time of life when they sense that they're arriving there. Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.

Most flaws couldn't be hidden at the last minute. A restaurant couldn't reinvent its menu or find a new purveyor of better ingredients just because a critic showed up. I got undercooked fish and overcooked pasta in places that knew full well I was there.

If a germ cannot be presumed aware of the living state of the body it dwells in, how can man's somewhat similarly circumscribed view afford him much more comprehension of the total aliveness of his planet today..

Every hero mirrors the time and place in which he lives. He must reflect men's innermost hopes and beliefs in a public way.

Marshall Fishwick

"The only trend I do not like in rap right now is the message rap. I consider the message rap the equivalent of what strings were to rock 'n' roll in the late '50s - a capitulation to the adult norm who can't accept the music on its own terms. The people who considered "Sixty Minute Man" by Billy Ward and the, "Annie Had a Baby" - as the pinnacles of '50s R&B now are super uptight over the - in quotes - hotel/motel lyrics of rap. Rap is definitely as true to the essence of rock 'n roll as anything that's out there today."

Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.

Be awake! No man, or body of men have a claim upon your liberty, but yourselves.

William Cooper Nell

People looked to Kurt Cobain because his songs captured what they felt before they knew they felt it.

Anthony DeCurtis

You cannot define talent. All you can do is build the greenhouse and see if it grows.

William P. Steven