#strip

The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes. ↗

— Alan Keyes

#confederate #flag #high #high seas #long

But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#arts #child #children #curriculum #drilling

Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#about #ascendancy #been #conservatives #day

After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now? ↗

— Ernst Toller

#ask #could #dead #death #earthly

I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars. ↗

— Mort Walker

#believe #buttons #cars #comic #comic strips

When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions. ↗

— Mort Walker

#black #flap #having #i #increase

When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine. ↗

— Mort Walker

#bailey #beetle #day #disciplinary #editor

You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper. ↗

— Mort Walker

#city #comic #comic strip #experimenting #had

To pitch a perfect game wearing pinstripes at Yankee Stadium, it's unbelievable. Growing up a Yankee fan, to come out here and make history, it really is a dream come true. ↗

— David Wells

#dream #fan #game #growing #growing up

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#come #democracy #hypocrisy #idea #imperatives