James Green
James Green
Known for his groundbreaking research on the history of American labor unions and movements, this University of Massachusetts-Boston professor penned such academic and popular publications as The World of the Worker, Taking History to Heart, and Death in the Haymarket.
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth4 November 1944
CityOak Park, IL
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You never know how bad a situation is going to be until you come out of it. But the nation has had two major hurricanes in [several] weeks, and we will be stronger because of it.
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Even more important than what we do, then, is who we are.
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As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be.
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John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybodys calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth.
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Then one day along come a Friday and that a unlucky star day and I playin' round de house and marster Williams come up and say, "Delis, will you 'low Jim walk down the street with me?" My mammy say, "All right, Jim, you be a good boy," and dat de las' time I ever heard her speak, or ever see her. We walks down whar de houses grows close together and pretty soon comes to de slave market. I ain't seed it 'fore, but when marster Williams says, "Git up on de block," I got a funny feelin', and I knows what has happened.
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If you want to make Shanghai a world class business center, you need more access and connectivity.
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The courts have ruled time and time again that students in public schools have the First Amendment right to remain quietly seated during the Pledge of Allegiance. Cameron is a very patriotic student, but his is a quiet form of patriotism. In a very polite and respectful way, he declined to stand for the pledge and the teacher berated him in front of his classmates.
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The law has been clear for more than 60 years that a student may remain quietly seated during a flag salute to express their beliefs.
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Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world.
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My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money.
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While I am the one who made the choice to enter the ministry, there was a choice before that one, the choice God made in calling me to be his in the first place.
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It's not just being called to the ministry that counts.
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There are congressmen in our congregation, judges, federal reserve governors. And there are also people who are homeless and some who are mentally ill. To be able to talk to each of those people is something that I've had to learn how to do over the years.
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I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.