#request

The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#ask #atlanta #back #car #conductor

Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#difficulty #henry #him #his #horses

The butcher died, and he requested to be cremated. But I don’t want to burn him, because I like my meat medium rare.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cannibalism #cook #cooking #cremated #death

Oh, Myr," he chokes out. "I hate having to ask this of you..." He glances towards the car again, and I crouch down in the shadows, hoping it's too dark for him to see whether the window is open or closed. The woman pats his arm, cradling her hand against his elbow. "You know I'd do anything for you and Hil," she says. I like her voice. It's throaty and rich. "You'd do anything?" my father repeats numbly. "Even now? After -?" "Even now," the woman says firmly. ↗

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

#asking #fear #forgiveness #guilt #help

It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out. ↗

— Jeff Ament

#causes #even #figure #figuring #good

Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request. ↗

— Kit Bond

#amtrak #budget #implement #makes #prepared

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#captured #consider #duress #ever #i

I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots ever even request permission to do that. ↗

— Hugh Shelton

#circumstances #confident #dire #even #ever

And I believe in the 13 years Judge Roberts was there, he never turned down a request to give some assistance on a pro-bono case, and this was no different. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#believe #case #different #down #give

Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own. ↗

— Eli Wallach

#decided #gonna #gotten #i #interviews