I know he was definitely beaten by her. I saw it many times. But we had a different way of dealing with her. He'd let her have more and more booze until she passed out.
“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”
“Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.”