Barry Larkin Quotes
I remember playing on pretty much an all-minority youth team and going to some of the tournaments north of Cincinnati and not being able to stay with host families where all the other teams were staying with host families.
Larkin, Barry. Interview by Jim Caple. ESPN.com, ESPN Internet Ventures, 20 July 2012.
Clifford was a staunch supporter of Harry Truman’s Executive Order 9981 because just like Truman, Clifford was a formal naval officer who had witnessed military discrimination.
This very controversial remark turned out to illustrate the argument that can develop over context. Conservative supporters provided this spin: Bennett was opposed to all kinds of abortion on moral grounds. He was arguing that the opposition to abortion should never be made on a pragmatic basis, but only on a moral basis. To illustrate he gave this example. However he certainly was not advocating the activity. Critics argue that he meant exactly what he said—that he represents a very racist constituency and knew exactly what he was saying and could say it, he thought, because he was not in any, public office at the time. Other critics, who give Bennett the benefit of the doubt, point out that even if he used the example to illustrate that a pragmatic result should not be used to argue the abortion issue, he picked a particularly racially insensitive example which shows his antipathy to Blacks which his critics argue that is part of a long pattern of opposing all legislation and programs designed to reduce the inequality in society.
When the Social Security Act was first passed, the jobs, such as housekeepers and domestic servants, and agricultural workers were not covered. This left out about two-thirds of the African Americans nationally and three-quarters of those in the South.
Interestingly, before 1705, there was no legislative prohibition against Indians and Free Negroes being full citizens including holding public office and voting. This act prohibited them from holding public office, but did not prohibit them from Voting provided they met the general voting requirement of being a landholder. However, 18 years later, voting by these minorities was no longer allowed. See Quotation 643588.
Barry Louis Larkin is an American former professional baseball player. He played shortstop for the Cincinnati Reds of the Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1986 to 2004.
