Ja Rule Quotes
The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.
Atkins, Jeffrey. Unruly: The Highs and Lows of Becoming a Man. Amistad, 2014.
La Guardia was a very short man and he had gone up to the much larger “poll watcher” and ripped his official button off his coat. The Tammany Hall political machine would appoint thugs as poll watchers to intimidate the voters. If the poll watcher was an "official" voters thought that they might have access to the ballot information and know whether or not they voted for the machine candidates. Their presense was often sufficient intimidation to assure party line voting by most people.
Parker and other escaped slaves in Christiana fought off slave catchers and killed the slave owner leading them. Charged with treason, he escaped to Canada with his family and lived there the rest of his life. While not a polished writer, after he himself had escaped and went to Christiana and leaned to read and write. He wrote this narrative of his life as a slave—one of the few written works we have from slaves.
Jeffrey Bruce Atkins, better known by his stage name Ja Rule (/dʒɑː/), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and actor.
