#shin

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. ↗

— Adam Smith

#far #flourishing #greater #happy #members

Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent. ↗

— Ed Smith

#both #came #certainly #chefs #deep

Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was. ↗

— Ed Smith

#black #booker #business #business owners #entrepreneurship

I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever. ↗

— Ed Smith

#experienced #grandparents #growing #growing up #had

The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own theaters, our own small shops, our own clubs, our own Masonic lodges. ↗

— Ed Smith

#beyond #black #black community #clubs #community

When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were required to live among themselves. ↗

— Ed Smith

#area #black #course #growing #growing up

There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#art #back #believe #bring #fancy

We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ↗

— John Spratt

#budget #deficits #developed #diminishing #during

We were in Little Rock. We were assessing a very important issue. In the midst of our discussions, we were receiving urgent inquiries from The Washington Post asking about interviews. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

#asking #assessing #discussions #important #important issue

The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#dealers #left #make #new #washington