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Well, you have to remember that until 1948, when Hubert Humphrey and others forced the Democratic Party to adopt a new policy on civil rights, the Democratic Party was the party of the old solid South. All of the racists, all of the Cottonhead Smith types and so on were Democrats, allies of Franklin Roosevelt - because of their seniority - of all the major committees of the Congress.

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It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

Change, Quickly, Things, Used, Wonderful
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One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances,. . . or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.

Night, Poetry, Says, Sleep

Time is but a mode of thought

Mode, Thought, Time

Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that's best for us. " Do you really believe that, Mother?" Peter asked quietly. Yes," she said, "I do believe it--almost always--except when I'm so sad that I can't believe anything. But even when I don't believe it, I know it's true--and I try to believe it.

Mistake, Mistakes, Mother, Nice, Think

The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love him best of all.

Cities, Gentle, I Love Him, Love, Poor, Tree

When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are true--such things, for instance, as that the earth goes round the sun, and that it is not flat but round. But the things that seem really likely, like fairy-tales and magic, are, so say the grown-ups, not true at all. Yet they are so easy to believe, especially when you see them happening.

Believe, Dullest, Flat, Magic, People
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