I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.
Charles KuraltI saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.
Charles KuraltThe everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
Charles KuraltThere are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.
Charles Kuralt