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| f886bbc | To our amazement Jimmy received a letter, dated August 20, 1963, from Bertrand Russell, the world-famous philosopher and peace activist, saying "I have recently finished your remarkable book The American Resolution" and "have been greatly impressed with its power and insight." The letter goes on to ask for Jimmy's views on whether American whites "will understand the negro [sic] revolt because "the survival of mankind may well follow or fai.. | Grace Lee Boggs | ||
| ecf39bb | In the 1950s I rarely went to a community meeting without Jimmy and would usually just listen or ask questions. Now, having worked in the city and socialized with Jimmy's friends and Correspondence readers for years, I felt I had something to contribute. I was beginning to feel comfortable with the we pronoun, so comfortable that in FBI records of that period I am described as Afro-Chinese. | Grace Lee Boggs | ||
| e6b399d | Look on yourself as a citizen in a kingdom of persons, he advised. Act always as if the maxim of your action could become a universal law, always treating mankind, as much in your own person as in that of another, as an end, never as a means.3 | Grace Lee Boggs | ||
| 706d73a | In times of crisis you either deepen democracy, or you go to the other extreme and become totalitarian. Our struggles for democracy have taught us some important and valuable lessons. Over a million citizen activists of all ethnic groups, mostly young people, made history by going door to door, urging voters to go to the polls and send Barack Obama to the White House in 2008. We did this because we believed and hoped that this charismatic b.. | Grace Lee Boggs | ||
| dff1161 | If we want to see change in our lives, we have to change things ourselves. | Grace Lee Boggs | ||
| 25e4541 | What the most advanced researchers and theoreticians in all of science now comprehend is that the Newtonian concept of a universe driven by mass force is out of touch with reality, for it fails to account for both observable phenomena and theoretical conundrums that can be explained only by quantum physics: A quantum view explains the success of small efforts quite differently. Acting locally allows us to be inside the movement and flow of .. | Grace Lee Boggs | ||
| 1aaf17b | A human being," Einstein concluded, "is a part of the whole, called by us 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by w.. | Grace Lee Boggs | ||
| 452c11f | I can see being angry with folks. Shoot, I'd about hang Chess on the laundry line any day of the week, but I don't shun him. Shunning's no way to get over and done with your fussing. It just drives in a sword that won't come out unless the person holding it pulls first. | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| a6f11e3 | I can hardly wait to read it all. But it seems I don't have three minutes to rub together. Some time soon I will take it on, maybe when Charlie is a few months older. | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| 4af5078 | Sarah, he says, it isn't like I'm some old codger you have to coddle. Well, I told him, I want you healthy, to be sure that someday you are. | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| 8d5d67f | Don't leave me, Jack, I said. Not ever, he whispered back. | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| c9dbb15 | In my head I remember that day the Indian man came and hollered at our camp and hadn't hurt anyone yet and I think that he was trying to say something, but no one will lift their eyes when I speak so I don't say anything. | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| 3da863c | It seems there is always a road with bends and forks to choose, and taking one path means you can never take another one. There's no starting over nor undoing the steps I've taken | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| db83e11 | A woman is a fool that lives from penny to farthing and n'er looks to the possibility of loss. | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| 5b47839 | Mrs. Faulkner had sidled up to me and said Good day, Mrs. Elliot? I just looked at her, and I saw in her eyes that she was wanting some kind of approval for her boy because of his career ahead, and she suddenly just looked like an old lady, not fancy and rich and frightening. An old lady whose son admired my husband, and who herself would be as helpless in the Territories as a newborn calf and not nearly as useful. Good day, I said back. It.. | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| c76ad26 | Could it be that following our initiatory path and connecting with higher source wisdom might actually be one of our species' best defense systems? | energy-healing gnosticism | Jonathan Talat Phillips | |
| b32af0a | It's a remarkable experience to ask yourself identity-crisis questions from a comic book movie with a mostly straight face, but I don't recommend it. | psychedelics | Jonathan Talat Phillips | |
| 43c582e | Our ailing planet needs spiritual warriors, ones capable of standing up to the Western materialism machine, so we can create sustainable societies that care for their citizens, harmonize with the cycles of nature, and receive and honor the vast healing light that quietly connects us all. | energy-healing spirituality | Jonathan Talat Phillips | |
| 78a4712 | We need to stop fighting the old systems and start creating new containers for people who are going through these spiritual openings,' Tavis reflected. 'Together, we need to build something that's never existed before--a global network of light. | spirituality | Jonathan Talat Phillips | |
| 8545a44 | Two years ago, George Bush felt prompted to address this issue. More spending on public education, said the president, isn't "the best answer." Mr. Bush went on to caution parents of poor children who see money "as a cure" for education problems. "A society that worships money ...," said the president, "is a society in peril." The president himself attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts--a school that spends $11,000 yearly on e.. | Jonathan Kozol | ||
| 14d5abe | Juet's journal frequently records how only a tiny quantity of alcohol was needed to get the Indians drunk, 'for they could not take it'; and tales of the drunkenness that greeted Hudsons' arrival persisted among the native Indians until the last century. Indeed Heckewelder claims that the name Manhattan is derived from the drunkenness that took place there, since the Indian word 'manahactanienk' means 'the island of general intoxication'. | henry-hudson hudson-river-expedition indians manhattan native-americans new-world | Giles Milton | |
| 9219961 | Difficulties existed only to be surmounted, and there was no setback that a little thought and determination could not overcome. | Giles Milton | ||
| f4797c7 | His system is a combination of ferocious blows, holds and throws, adapted from Japanese bayonet tactics, ju-jitsu, Chinese boxing, Sikh wrestling, French wrestling and Cornish collar-and-elbow wrestling, plus expert knowledge of hip-shooting, knife fighting and use of the Tommy gun and hand grenade. | Giles Milton | ||
| 92c2cb0 | The Duchessa d'Aosta had been placed under the command of Geoffrey Appleyard and a skeleton crew, who were so delighted with their prize ship - and their Italian prisoners now locked below decks - that they hoisted a skull and crossbones from the mainmast. March-Phillipps exploded when he saw it fluttering in the dawn breeze. 'We all got a rocket and we were told we weren't to fly the Jolly Roger,' recalled Leonard Guise. 'He was a great st.. | Giles Milton | ||
| 147a9c0 | He was the first to admit that he had been singularly ill-qualified for all his previous jobs. Just a few months earlier, he had accepted the editorship of Gardening Magazine. 'Nobody could know less about gardening than me,' he said. But it didn't stop him dispensing advice for his readers. 'I would solemnly give them my views on whether it were better to plant globe artichokes in September or March.'18 Now, at last, he had fallen into a j.. | Giles Milton | ||
| 686658a | The Queen coined new money specifically for the Company {East India}. Minted at the Tower of London and bearing her arms on one side and a portcullis on the other, it soon became know as the portcullis money. She also granted the merchants a new flag which, with its blue field and background of thirteen red and white stripes, prefigured the one adopted by the Thirteen Colonies of America some 175 years later. | elizabeth-i thirteen-colonies | Giles Milton | |
| 57917c1 | The Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors offered him a six-figure sum in recognition of his pioneering wartime inventions. Jefferis was gratified but turned it down. 'His Edwardian principals of right and wrong were very strong,' said his son John.16 He did not believe he should profit from having helped to defeat Hitler. | Giles Milton | ||
| a9ffb98 | In the summer of 1914, he had headed to France in the company of his only son, Alistair. They were driving at high speed through woodland in Northern France when Alistair lost control of the wheel. The car spun into a roadside tree and flipped upside down. Alistair was flung from the vehicle and landed on his head. Cumming was trapped by his leg in a tangle of smouldering metal. 'The boy was fatally injured,' wrote Compton Mackenzie in his .. | Giles Milton | ||
| 4719e48 | desk simply to say: "Would you be willing to be parachuted into Greece next week?"' Woodhouse thought about it for a moment. 'There seemed no reason to say No, so I said Yes.'5 He reasoned that it would be a good opportunity to practise his Greek." | Giles Milton | ||
| e4c7878 | He penned a letter to the Company in London, a letter whose unfailing spirit would become legendary among the sailors of the East India Company. 'I cannot tell where you should looke for me.' he wrote, 'because I live at the devotion of the winds and seas.' (Written by/about Captain James Lancaster, on the ship Red Dragon, during a terrible storm, 1603) | courage explorers james-lancaster sailors spice-islands | Giles Milton | |
| b4a89f3 | Some had hurled spears first. Those spears thumped into our shields, making them unwieldy, but it hardly mattered. The leading Danes tripped on the hidden timbers and the men behind pushed the falling men forward. I kicked one in the face, feeling my iron-reinforced boot crush bone. Danes were sprawling at our feet while others tried to get past their fallen comrades to reach our line, and we were killing. Two men succeeded in reaching us, .. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 171a5dd | And then I had ridden from the east in the glory of a warrior, which is what I am and always have been. All my life I have followed the path of the sword. Given a choice, and I have been given many choices, I would rather draw a blade than settle an argument with words, for that is what a warrior does, but most men and women are not fighters. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| ffe0192 | I was just twenty-one and my name was known wherever men sharpened swords. I was a warrior. A sword warrior, and I was proud of it. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 9ebbbd5 | Merlino mi fisso. - Credi che tu, Derfel, o Artu possiate essere tanto forti da resistere a Nimue? Lei e una donna. Le donne ottengono sempre cio che vogliono, e se per ottenerlo devono rovinare il mondo e tutto cio che il mondo contiene, cosi sia. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 90028c7 | A bastard son must fight his own way in the world. Osferth knew that. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 7398fff | I was angry. I wanted blood in the dawn. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 070dfcc | Ragnall Ivarson. I had never met him, but I knew him. I knew his reputation. No man sailed a ship better, no man fought more fiercely, no man was held in more fear. He was a savage, a pirate, a wild king of nowhere. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 11ed1bc | Well damn him. I was not dead yet, and so long as I lived I would fight for AEthelflaed. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| d75d987 | Bernard Cornwell | |||
| 666363f | There is a greater war, Uhtred. Not the fight between Saxon and Dane, but between God and the devil, between good and evil! We are part of it! | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 64fb944 | That is why battles of the shield wall are slow to start. Men have to nerve themselves for the horror. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 4471c00 | You bastard!' he shouted. He was quick. No warrior stays alive by being slow. | cornwell saxon-stories the-empty-throne uhtred | Bernard Cornwell | |
| e338648 | Yes, sir," Hicks said. He was a small young man, very officious, who would never contradict a superior. If Morris claimed the clouds were made of cheese Hicks would just stand to attention, twitch his nose, and swear blind he could smell Cheddar." | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 8922159 | Thirty paces, twenty, and you can see the eyes of the men who will try to kill you, and see the spear-blades, and the instinct is to stop, to straighten the shields. We cringe from battle, fear claws at us, time seems to stop, there is silence though a thousand men shout, and at that moment, when terror savages the heart like a trapped beast, you must hurl yourself into the horror. Because the enemy feels the same. And you have come to kill.. | killing shield-wall | Bernard Cornwell |