A Region Is An Area

One Of Our Troubles Is That We Try To Make Municipalities That Are Totally Different From Each Other All Act As If They Were The Same Kind Of Creature, With The Same Kinds Of Possibilities.

Americans Have Got It So Dinged Into Them That They Are The Most Fortunate People On Earth, And That The Rest Of The World - The Sooner It Copies What America Is Like, The Better.

Reformers Have Long Observed City People Loitering On Busy Corners, Hanging Around In Candy Stores And Bars And Drinking Soda Popon Stoops, And Have Passed A Judgment, The Gist Of Which Is: "this Is Deplorable! If These People Had Decent Homes And A More Private Or Bosky Outdoor Place, They Wouldn't Be On The Street!" That Judgment Represents A Profound Misunderstanding Of Cities. It Makes No More Sense Than To Drop In At A Testimonial Banquet In A Hotel And Conclude That If These People Had Wives Who Could Cook, They Would Give Their Parties At Home.

I Have Learned Yet Again (this Has Been Going On All My Life) What Folly It Is To Take Any Thing For Granted Without Examining It Skeptically.

Why Did I Become A Canadian Citizen? Not Because I Was Rejecting Being A U.s. Citizen. At The Time When I Became A Canadian Citizen, You Couldn't Be A Dual Citizen. Now You Can. So I Had To Be One Or The Other. But The Reason I Became A Canadian Citizen Was Because It Simply Seemed So Abnormal To Me Not To Be Able To Vote.