The Streets And Alleys Of The Ward

There Must Be A Technique For Meeting Pain. There Must Be A Technique Of Endurance Based On The Power Of The Soul To Maintain Its Own Serenity, As Marcus Aurelius Taught Long Ago.

The Streets And Alleys Of The Ward Were Notoriously Filthy, And The Contractors Habitually Neglected Them, Not Failing, However, To Draw Their Regular Payments From The City Treasury.

It Is Not Short Of Amazing, The Power Of A Great Idea To Weld Men Together. There Was In It A Peculiar, Intense, Vital Spirit If You Will, That I Have Never Felt Before In Any Strike.

The Discrimination Is Not Made Openly, But A Negro Who Goes To Such Places Is Informed That There Are No Accommodations, Or He Is Overlooked And Otherwise Slighted, So That He Does Not Come Again.

Adventure Is Not Outside; It Is Within.