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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We're working closely with the Shanghai government, but obviously we're not there yet.
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The government has taken a one-two punch from Mother Nature over the past couple of weeks. ...They are going to need help. That's where we come in.
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We hope to know something definitive on both of those guys pretty soon. If we lose both of them, even one of them, that's a blow.
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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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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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What happens with condominiums is people end up buying them as investments and renting them as apartments.
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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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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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As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be.
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Even more important than what we do, then, is who we are.
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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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Back in the days when I was growing up, the SWAC had as good of talent as any schools in the state.
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We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didnt know that we were any different from anybody else.
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Further south, there are some airports, but none our size. Our airport is the gateway to the southern Kansas City.