The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.

The study of music was a family interest.

In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color.

The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.

I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress.

My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.

The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me.