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We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#details #every #every man #gray #great

The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#am #assigns #certain #doors #gentleman

Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#go #gold #i #inside #laughs

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#inflict #mental #never #nightmare #ourselves

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#being #could #get #go #hope

I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#back #believed #bobby #bobby kennedy #campaigning

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#american #close #done #even #fear

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#brought #grandmother #harlem #hills #hollywood

I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#cities #had #i #over #played

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#i #initially #me #nixon #opposed