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| 493d1e5 | Jackson began raids into Florida, arguing it was a sanctuary for escaped slaves and for marauding Indians. Florida, he said, was essential to the defense of the United States. It was that classic modern preface to a war of conquest. Thus began the Seminole War of 1818, leading to the American acquisition of Florida. It appears on classroom maps politely as "Florida Purchase, 1819"--but it came from Andrew Jackson's military campaign across .. | Howard Zinn | ||
| f158325 | WITCH lives and laughs in every woman. She is the free part of each of us, beneath the shy smiles, the acquiescence to absurd male domination, the make-up or flesh-suffocating clothes our sick society demands. There is no "joining" WITCH. If you are a woman and dare to look within yourself, you are a WITCH. You make your own rules." | Howard Zinn | ||
| 54e074f | You can't be neutral on a moving train, | Howard Zinn | ||
| 2851ca7 | The colonies, it seems, were societies of contending classes--a fact obscured by the emphasis, in traditional histories, on the external struggle against England, the unity of colonists in the Revolution. The country therefore was not "born free" but born slave and free, servant and master, tenant and landlord, poor and rich." -- | Howard Zinn | ||
| 55acef6 | The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful in the new nation--all this was already settled in the colonies by the time of the Revolution. With the English out of the way, it could now be put on paper, solidified, regularized, made legitimate, by the Constitution of the United States, drafted at a convention of Revolutionary leaders in Philadelphia. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 9e4a5ea | In two years, through murder, mutilation, or suicide, half of the 250,000 Indians on Haiti were dead. | Howard Zinn | ||
| dd19476 | If racism can't be shown to be natural, then it is the result of certain conditions, and we are impelled to eliminate those conditions. | Howard Zinn | ||
| cc50b6e | Une population parfaitement determinee est en mesure non seulement de contraindre un dirigeant a fuir son pays, mais egalement de faire reculer un candidat a l'occupation de son territoire par la mise en oeuvre d'un formidable ensemble de strategies disponible : boycotts et manifestations, occupations de locaux et sit-in, arrets de travail et greves generales, obstructions et sabotages, greve des loyers et des impots, refus de cooperer, ref.. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 6b35cc5 | The owners of factories are more concerned than other classes and interests in the intelligence of their laborers. When the latter are well-educated and the former are disposed to deal justly, controversies and strikes can never occur, nor can the minds of the masses be prejudiced by demagogues and controlled by temporary and factious considerations. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 0dd5798 | Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Mask of Anarchy." . . . "Rise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number! Shake your chains to earth, like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you-- Ye are many, they are few!" | Howard Zinn | ||
| d0298b7 | I wonder now how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our own. Then we could never drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, or napalm on Vietnam, or wage war anywhere, because wars, especially in our time, are always wars against children, indeed our children. | Howard Zinn | ||
| accf315 | The ecological crisis in the world had become so obviously serious that Pope John Paul II felt the need to rebuke the wealthy classes of the industrialized nations for creating that crisis: "Today, the dramatic threat of ecological breakdown is teaching us the extent to which greed and selfishness, both individual and collective, are contrary to the order of creation." | Howard Zinn | ||
| 0eeb8d9 | There is not a country in world history in which racism has been more important, for so long a time, as the United States. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 70379b7 | Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is. And so, the schools, the churches, the popular literature taught that to be rich was a sign of superiority, to be poor a sign of personal failure, and that the only way upward for a poor person was to climb into .. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 5a69737 | Morgan then formed the U.S. Steel Corporation, combining Carnegie's corporation with others. He sold stocks and bonds for $1,300,000,000 (about 400 million more than the combined worth of the companies) and took a fee of 150 million for arranging the consolidation. How could dividends be paid to all those stockholders and bondholders? By making sure Congress passed tariffs keeping out foreign steel; by closing off competition and maintainin.. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 95aa5ef | Lightning shall be slow to my hasting. | speed urgency | E.R. Eddison | |
| e7c0afe | Us, little children of the dust, children of a day, who with so many burdens do burden us with taking thought and with fears and desires and devious schemings of the mind, so that we wax old before our time and fall weary ere the brief day be spent and one reaping-hook gather us home at last for all our pains. | humanity life | E.R. Eddison | |
| a122092 | But because day at her dawning hours hath so bewitched me, must I yet love her when glutted with triumph she settles to garish noon? . . . Who dares call me turncoat, who do but follow now as I have followed this rare wisdom all my days: to love the sunrise and the sundown and the morning and the evening star. | loyalty | E.R. Eddison | |
| 792c910 | Every time I played Isumi he made calm deliberate moves regardless of how the game was going. If he can maintain that in match play he'll always have a vital edge going in. | Yumi Hotta | ||
| 2ddf0d9 | An offer indeed," said Lord Brandoch Daha; "if it be not in mockery. Say it loud, that my folk may hear." Corund did so, and the Demons heard it from the walls of the burg. Lord Brandoch Daha stood somewhat apart from Juss and Spitfire and their guard. "Libel it me out," he said. "For good as I now must deem thy word, thine hand and seal must I have to show my followers ere they consent with me in such a thing." "Write thou," said Corund to.. | honour | E.R. Eddison | |
| 38b17f5 | The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using all the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetracked on the first one. | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | ||
| 8cdf8e7 | The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | ||
| 9c1e627 | The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. The only question is whether to plan in advance to build a throwaway, or to promise to deliver the throwaway to customers. | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | ||
| 7b7aa2d | No world exists without sacrifice. Do we not realize that we call this hell where ash floats upon a sea of blood, the world | Tite Kubo | ||
| 39140fe | We should not shed tears. That is a surrender of the body to the heart. It is only proof That we are beings that do not know What to do with our hearts | heart kuchiki-byakuya surrender | Tite Kubo | |
| bc98b03 | The two men sat there together, in the kind of silence that's not empty because it has the thoughts of two longtime friends to fill it. | Suzette Haden Elgin | ||
| 925fffa | You know that dejection that comes upon you when you realize that the person you're talking to might as well be from Jupiter, for all the chance you have of making them get what you're saying? I hate that. | Julie Powell | ||
| 0b0e1d7 | I never really even tried. But if I'm not a New York actress, what am I? I'm a person who takes a subway from the outer boroughs to lower Manhattan office every morning, who spends her days answering phones and doing copying, who is too disconsolate when she gets back to her apartment at night to do anything but sit on the couch and stare vacantly at reality TV shows until she falls asleep. Oh Godm it really was true, wasn't it? I really wa.. | Julie Powell | ||
| 9fa6937 | Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are. | truthful witty | Julie Powell | |
| 207b7d1 | Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. | inspirational julie-julia julie-powell | Julie Powell | |
| 097a9a9 | No decision is so fine as to not bind us to its consequences. No consequence is so unexpected as to absolve us of our decisions. Not even death. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| a8be50d | more than anything, it was ignorance that delivered conviction beyond the pale of disputation. Ignorance of questions. Ignorance of alternatives. No tyranny was so complete as blindness. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 7916674 | That hope is little more than the premonition of regret. This is the first lesson of history. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 31e696e | Our words always paint two portraits when we describe our families to others. Outsiders cannot but see the small peeves and follies that wrinkle our relationships with our loved ones. The claims we make in defensive certainty--that we were the one wronged, that we were the one who wanted the best--cannot but fall on skeptical ears since everyone makes the same claimsof virtue and innocence. We are always more than we want to be in the eyes .. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 0a7a1d3 | And Cnaiur grinned as only a Chieftain of the Utemot could grin. The neck of the world, it seemed, lay pressed against the point of his sword. I shall butcher. All hungered here. All starved. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 4f59b68 | Sheltered by his caste, Sarcellus had not, as the impoverished must, made fear the pivot of his passions. As a result he possessed an immovable self-assurance. He felt. He acted. He judged. The fear of being wrong that so characterized Achamian simply did not exist for Cutias Sarcellus. Where Achamian was ignorant of the answers, Sarcellus was ignorant of the questions. No certitude, she thought, could be greater. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| e8a5181 | You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards neither skill nor daring. It is not a trial of souls, not the measure of wills. Even less is it a tool, a means to some womanish end. It is merely the place where the iron bones of the earth meet the hollow bones of men and break them. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 0d73dd1 | It sounds cool to say you are going to fight with a pen not a sword but violence with words is still violence .. | josei journalism manga reality-quotes romance swords words | Yayoi Ogawa | |
| b7300af | How quickly we became prisoners, how quickly we gave up our freedom, how quickly we tolerated the loss of that freedom, like a child being abused, in silence. | Suki Kim | ||
| 29bed94 | He likes to humble our foes by making them seem ridiculous. As he said to me the other day, 'Kill a man, and you cede him honor in the eyes of the gods. Laugh at him and you shame him'. | shame the-great-game | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 5df2073 | Whatever displeasure she felt was openly voiced, and quickly resolved, by either compromise or one partner's acceptance of the other's intractability. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 8c457ee | There was nothing left to fear. He would endure or he wouldn't. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| ec835aa | Find where the sound ends and silence begins. Then exist in that moment, for there will you find your secret centre of being, the perfect place of peace within yourself. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 12d77a4 | Kings and marshals can look back and relive their triumphs, their great victories. We common folk must take what pleasure we can from life's little victories. | Raymond E. Feist |