Portal:Philadelphia/Quotes archive/2007

"Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch."

– Andrea Mitchell

"It is a handsome city, but distractingly regular. After walking about it for an hour or two, I felt that I would have given the world for a crooked street. The collar of my coat appeared to stiffen, and the brim of my hat to expand, beneath its Quakerly influence."

– Charles Dickens

"...there is probably no city in the known world where dislike, amounting to the hatred of the coloured population, prevails more than in the city of brotherly love!"

– Joseph Sturge

"Socially, Philadelphia was still a fairly provincial city, its business community governed by the mores of the Main Line. Politically, it was a cauldron of ethnic rivalries, dominated by competing Irish and Italian constituencies."

– Andrea Mitchell