“ There are people, even Americans, who never move themselves or know that anything else is moving. ”
Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom (1913). copy citation
Author | Woodrow Wilson |
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Source | The New Freedom |
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Date | 1913 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14811/14811-h/14811-h.htm |
Context
“There are, of course, Americans who have not yet heard that anything is going on. The circus might come to town, have the big parade and go, without their catching a sight of the camels or a note of the calliope. There are people, even Americans, who never move themselves or know that anything else is moving.
A friend of mine who had heard of the Florida "cracker," as they call a certain ne'er-do-weel portion of the population down there, when passing through the State in a train, asked some one to point out a "cracker"”
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