Famous quotes containing the words alcohol, free and/or housing:
“The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas mysterious routes back to his native Guinea.
Meanwhile, the feast continued. The peasants were forgetting their misery: dance and alcohol numbed them, carrying away their shipwrecked conscience in the unreal and shady regions where the savage madness of the African gods lay waiting.”
—Jacques Roumain (19071945)
“It is part of the nature of consciousness, of how the mental apparatus works, that free reason is only a very occasional function of peoples thinking and that much of the process is made of reactions as standardized as those of the keys on a typewriter.”
—John Dos Passos (18961970)
“We have been weakened in our resistance to the professional anti-Communists because we know in our hearts that our so-called democracy has excluded millions of citizens from a normal life and the normal American privileges of health, housing and education.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (18871970)