“When you expand the civil-rights struggle to the level of human rights, you can then take the case of the black man in this country before the nations in the UN. You can take it before the General Assembly. You can take Uncle Sam before a world court. But the only level you can do it on is the level of human rights. Civil rights keeps you under his restrictions, under his jurisdiction. Civil rights keeps you in his pocket.” MenWorldHumansCountryNationsBlackCan DoLevelsCasesStruggleRightsCourtHuman RightsCivil RightsPocketsUnclesYou Can Do ItRestrictionAssemblyJurisdictionUncle SamGeneral Assembly Author:Malcolm X
“This was a secret meeting on a secret tour which nobody is supposed to know about. It means that there are men, and perhaps women, in this country walking around with eggs in their pockets, just on the off-chance of seeing the Prime Minister.” KnowsMenMeanCountryChanceSecretSeeingWalkingMeetingsMinistersPocketsEggsPrimePrime Minister Author:Edward Heath
“The California I knew, old rancho California, is gone. It just doesn't exist, except maybe in little pockets. I lived on the edge of the Mojave Desert, an area that used to be farm country. There were all these fresh-produce stands with avocados and date palms. You could get a dozen artichokes for a buck or something. Totally wiped out now.” LittlesCountryUsedGoneProduceAreasEdgesUsed To BeDesertCaliforniaPocketsFarmsDozenPalmsBucksAvocadosArtichokesMojave Author:Sam Shepard
“Every city, every town, every region in USA has these weird things - the way they pronounce words, or what they call soda, or how people drive. It's a huge country, and there's all these strange pockets of behavioral patterns that social anthropologists could spend lifetimes researching and reporting on.” PeopleWayCountrySocialCitiesStrangeHugeTownsLifetimePatternsUsaPocketsRegionsWeird ThingsSodaAnthropologists Author:Michael Schur