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| 051cdfe | From that moment on, I was no longer a liberal, a believer in the self-correcting character of American democracy. I was a radical, believing that something fundamental was wrong in this country--not just the existence of poverty amidst great wealth, not just the horrible treatment of black people, but something rotten at the root. The situation required not just a new president or new laws, but an uprooting of the old order, the introducti.. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 29c8367 | Another view of the Constitution was put forward early in the twentieth century by the historian Charles Beard (arousing anger and indignation, including a denunciatory editorial in the New York Times). He wrote in his book An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution: Inasmuch as the primary object of a government, beyond the mere repression of physical violence, is the making of the rules which determine the property relations of member.. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 682fb6d | Roosevelt was as much concerned to end the oppression of Jews as Lincoln was to end slavery during the Civil War; their priority in policy (whatever their personal compassion for victims of persecution) was not minority rights, but national power. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 75bf573 | I lay back on my bunk and thought about people I love, and how lucky I was to be white and not poor and just passing briefly through a system which is a permanent hell for so many. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 2935c72 | All those histories of this country centered on the Founding Fathers and the Presidents weigh oppressively on the capacity of the ordinary citizen to act. They suggest that in times of crisis we must look to someone to save us: in the Revolutionary crisis, the Founding Fathers; in the slavery crisis, Lincoln; in the Depression, Roosevelt; in the Vietnam-Watergate crisis, Carter. And that between occasional crises everything is all right, an.. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 7d3d311 | The principle is not that a human being cannot justly own another, but that he cannot own him unless he is loyal to the United States. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 062224b | the farmer is the man The Farmer is the man Lives on credit till the fall With the interest rates so high It's a wonder he don't die And the mortgage man's the one that gets it all. The farmer is the man The farmer is the man Lives on credit till the fall And his pants are wearing thin His condition it's a sin He's forgot that he's the man that feeds them all. | feed man | Howard Zinn | |
| 2b6f926 | Only one fear was greater than the fear of black rebellion in the new American colonies. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 01afd7e | The president, the secretary of state, and the secretary of defense were lying to the American public--there was no evidence of any attack, and the American destroyers were not on "routine patrol" but on spying missions." | Howard Zinn | ||
| ab4ab92 | It was the new politics of ambiguity--speaking for the lower and middle classes to get their support in times of rapid growth and potential turmoil. The two-party system came into its own in this time. To give people a choice between two different parties and allow them, in a period of rebellion, to choose the slightly more democratic one was an ingenious mode of control. | Howard Zinn | ||
| e2d3c2b | T]hat combination of inferior status and derogatory thought [is what] we call racism. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 7f20e1f | Would the behavior of the United States during the war--in military action abroad, in treatment of minorities at home--be in keeping with a "people's war"? Would the country's wartime policies respect the rights of ordinary people everywhere to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? And would postwar America, in its policies at home and overseas, exemplify the values for which the war was supposed to have been fought? These questions .. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 09b26b3 | Charles Beard warned us that governments--including the government of the United States--are not neutral, that they represent the dominant economic interests, and that their constitutions are intended to serve these interests. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 08fe173 | Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper in Ruleville, Mississippi, became legendary as organizer and speaker. She sang hymns; she walked picket lines with her familiar limp (as a child she contracted polio). She roused people to excitement at mass meetings: "I'm sick an' tired o' bein' sick an' tired!" | protest woman | Howard Zinn | |
| 84986b9 | Revolutionary America may have been a middle-class society, happier and more prosperous than any other in its time, but it contained a large and growing number of fairly poor people, and many of them did much of the actual fighting and suffering between 1775 and 1783: A very old story. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 6b77b35 | Jackson was a land speculator, merchant, slave trader, and the most aggressive enemy of the Indians in early American history. He became a hero of the War of 1812, which was not (as usually depicted in American textbooks) just a war against England for survival, but a war for the expansion of the new nation, into Florida, into Canada, into Indian territory. | Howard Zinn | ||
| f32fe79 | Free white workers were better off than slaves or servants, but they still resented unfair treatment by the wealthier classes. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 45ead96 | The reward for participating in a movement for social justice is not the prospect of future victory. It is the exhilaration of standing together with other people, taking risks together, enjoying small triumphs and enduring disheartening setbacks--together. | Howard Zinn | ||
| eb36c7e | the media, like the politicians, do not take note of rebellion until it is too large to be ignored. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 33dc41d | American slavery the most cruel form of slavery in history: the frenzy for limitless profit that comes from capitalistic agriculture; the reduction of the slave to less than human status by the use of racial hatred, with that relentless clarity based on color, where white was master, black was slave. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 79ceaa6 | the term "middle class" concealed a fact long true about this country, that, as Richard Hofstadter said: "It was . . . a middle-class society governed for the most part by its upper classes." Those upper classes, to rule, needed to make concessions to the middle class, without damage to their own wealth or power, at the expense of slaves, Indians, and poor whites. This bought loyalty. And to bind that loyalty with something more powerful ev.. | Howard Zinn | ||
| c37e935 | But Gro smiled a sad smile and said, "Why should we by words of ill omen strike yet another blow where the tree tottereth?" | E.R. Eddison | ||
| 007444d | The sun stooped to the western waves, entering his bath of blood-red fire. He sank, and all the ways were darkened. | sunset | E.R. Eddison | |
| 2d32942 | Thunder and blood and night must usurp our parts, to complete and make up the catastrophe of this great piece. | doom fate | E.R. Eddison | |
| 1193782 | Surely," he said, "the great mountains of the world are a present remedy if men did but know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time. They know the ways of the sun and the wind, the lightning's fiery feet, the frost that shattereth, the rain that shroudeth, the snow that putteth about their nakedness a softer coverlet than fine lawn." | life nature patience wisdom | E.R. Eddison | |
| 0c1f7ae | Taking on the afterlife one soul at a time. | ichigo tag-line | Tite Kubo | |
| 5182294 | First principle: there's no such thing as reality. We make it up by perceiving stimuli from the environment - external or internal - and making statements about it. Everybody perceives stuff, everybody makes up statements about it, everybody - so far as we can tell - agrees enough to get by, so that when I say 'Hand me the coffee' you know what to hand me. And that's reality. Second principle; people get used to a certain kind of reality an.. | Suzette Haden Elgin | ||
| 3a286bf | Judging with the eyes is always a mistake, | Julie Elizabeth Powell | ||
| ae9ae12 | My brother wrote another refrigerator magnet poem, when he was probably nineteen or twenty: 'When the flood comes/ I will swim to a symphony/ go by boat to some picture show/ and maybe I will forget about you.' How did he know way, way back then? How is it I know only now? | Julie Powell | ||
| d1fc3d1 | The powdered sugar had caramelized and blackened into a sucking tar pit in which my ladyfingers languished like so many sunk mastadons. | Julie Powell | ||
| 4f55cb5 | Unfortunately, Martha's recipes, though suitably complex, fall a tad short if you're looking for aphrodisiac cooking, perhaps only because everything about a Martha recipe, from the font it's printed in to the call for sanding sugar, with appended notes on where to find such a thing, simply screams Martha. | Julie Powell | ||
| 91cde3a | Performance anxiety and a dry-cleaning bill; those were the only things keeping me from stark raving lunacy. | Julie Powell | ||
| a1311d7 | The thing you learn with Potage Parmentier is that "simple" is not exactly the same as easy." | Julie Powell | ||
| 29c6c7a | One theory on cannibals, of course, is that they eat parts of their slain enemies to benefit from that person's greatest assets - their strength, their courage. Then there's that thing they do in Germany. You heard about that, didn't you? Some man over there agreed to let another man cut off his penis, cook it, then feed it to him - now, what in hell was that all about? What did he think the taste of his stir-fried cock would tell him about.. | Julie Powell | ||
| 91a940d | fot he sin of the idolater is not that he worships stone, but that he worships one stone over others. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 4b195fa | He no longer heard Kellhus speak so much as observed him cut and carve, whittle and hew, as though the man had somehow shattered the glass of language and fashioned knives from the pieces. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| c8b4031 | We," she repeated, laughing as though both hurt and astounded. "It really is 'we' now, isn't it?" With a shy, even scared, smile, she helped him pull free his weathered robes. "When I can't find you," he said, "or even when you turn away, I feel ... I feel hollow, as though my heart's a thing of smoke ... Isn't that 'we'?" | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| cb866ec | A moze, w co chetniej wierzyl Achamian, wybrancami byli ci, ktorzy sie wahali. Czesto myslal o tym, ze wabik falszywej pewnosci jest najbardziej narkotyczna i destrukcyjna ze wszystkich pokus. Kto czynil dobro, tkwiac w niepewnosci, czynil dobro bez obietnicy nagrody... Moze wiec samo zwatpienie bylo kluczem? To pytanie - co zrozumiale - musialo pozostac nierozstrzygniete. Jezeli szczere zwatpienie rzeczywiscie mialo byc warunkiem odkupieni.. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 484674c | Some events mark us so deeply that they find more force of presence in their aftermath than in their occurrence. They are moments that rankle at becoming past, and so remain contemporaries of our beating hearts. Some events are not remembered--they are relived. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 238f62d | We must speak plainly. Only honesty provides truth. Only truth delivers triumph. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 9c20fae | Only madmen and historians, he said, believe their lies. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| b061b47 | Convince a man to take a single step--after all, what earthly difference could one step make?--and he would walk the next mile to prove himself right. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 65a0e2b | Where hard life makes some maudlin to the point of weeping at mere memory, it grants others a curious immunity to suffering. Like the slaves who work the charcoal pits, their skin grows hardened to the pinch of fire and coals, insensible to burning things. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 582557f | What did it mean to a prophet to sing in a God's own voice? Would that make him a shaman, as in the days described in the Tusk? Or would it make him a god? | R. Scott Bakker |