Captured at www.blackenvy.com
Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites »
The picture of Mr. and Mrs. Black that emerges from these web pages is of deeply complex individuals who are not afraid of personal contradictions. For example, Mr. Black declares that “our federalist and patriotic credentials are unquestionable,” but he is also comfortable with his opinion that “most Canadians would prefer an American Canada to a socialist one.”
One cannot help but share their deep admiration of the world’s greatest living statesmen, including Ronald Reagan (“a 28 per cent top personal income tax rate qualified him in my estimation for Mount Rushmore”) and Margaret Thatcher (“one of her most fervent desires is to do to the word ‘compassion’ what she says she has done in Britain to the word ‘planning’”).
Quote: Justice wears a blind. She does not peek to see if a man is black or white, rich or poor….[Nevertheless] in this day and age one might go as far as to say that to be rich and powerful is more a disadvantage in court than an advantage. While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority-group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful.
