D. B. Sweeney Quotes
Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.
Sweeney, D. B. Interview by Bob Thomas. Associated Press, 1 Sept. 1988.
This is a variation of the famous Lord Acton quotation: {292904}.
Franklin, then a Harvard student was courting Eleanor who had been working in a settlement house on the Lower East Side of New York. He visited her there and on this occasion a young girl had become very ill and Eleanor wanted to see her home and took Franklin along. This was his first experience with the living conditions of poor people.
What is fascinating about this quotation is that although the head of a religion, Smith was not advocating the kinds of personal lifestyles of his church the way modern religious leaders do, but was concerned with the much larger issues of expansionism, corruption of the courts and judiciary, and land distribution. He was a classic reform candidate in that sense. Smith had written to most of the then likely Presidential candidates of both major parties asking for their position on the Mormons who were facing persecution wherever they went. None of the politicians would make any satisfactory commitments. Smith took Direct Action and became the only major religious official to have run for the Presidency of the United States until Pat Robertson tried and failed in 2000. Smith’s assassination shortly thereafter cut his run for the Presidency short before it made much headway and politically he had no chance to affect the race.
Daniel Bernard Sweeney is an American actor.
