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| 39caeae | According to historian Ellen Hammer, he (Pres. Kennedy) was, 'shaken and depressed.' to realize that, 'the first Catholic ever to become a Vietnamese chief of state was dead, assassinated as a direct result of a policy authorized by the first American Catholic president.' At one point an aide tried to console him by reminding him that Diem and Nhu had been tyrants. 'No," he replied. "They were in a difficult position.' They did the best th.. | vietnam vietnam-war | Stephen Kinzer | |
| 63e2a95 | On December 4, 1972, President Salvador Allende of Chile told the United Nations General Assembly that his country would "no longer tolerate the subordination implied by having more than eighty percent of its exports in the hands of a small group of large foreign companies." | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| c39eeb4 | We based our government on the doctrine promulgated in the Declaration of Independence that all men are created free and equal and are by nature entitled to certain inalienable rights, which are mentioned in the declaration. We did not say that all men in the United States were born free and equal, but we said that all men, wherever they are born, stand on terms of equality.... | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| 3f047f2 | Nationalists reflexively rebel against governments they perceive as lackeys of foreign power. In the twentieth century, many of these rebels were men and women inspired by American history, American principles, and the rhetoric of American democracy. They were critical of the United States, however, and wished to reduce or eliminate the power it wielded over their countries. Their defiance made them anathema to American leaders, who crushed.. | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| f02a314 | To kill weeds, you must pull them up at the roots, | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| c41a35e | The emergence of markets abroad put Americans to work, but it distorted the economies of poor countries in ways that greatly increased their poverty. As American companies accumulated vast sugar and fruit plantations in the Pacific, Central America, and the Caribbean, they forced countless small farmers off their land. Many became contract laborers who worked only when Americans needed them, and naturally came to resent the United States. A.. | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| 6ad6be6 | Oscar-winning triumph. The New York Times called it "a disturbing revelation of the savagery that prevailed in the hearts of the old gun-fighters, who were simply legal killers under the frontier code." It was that and more. The hero acts precisely as many Americans believe their country acts in the world. He is an enforcer of morality and a scourge of oppressors; he comes from far away but knows instinctively what must be done; he brings p.. | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| 503b6aa | Life is not shaped by what happens to you but by how you react to what happens to you. | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| a008926 | I wanted Americans to understand that words matter--that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it. | Michelle Obama | ||
| 83c042d | puke green being the official color of the 1970s-- | Michelle Obama | ||
| 2e235fd | When you're First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes. | Michelle Obama | ||
| b2e1358 | Even white people were recognizing him now. | Michelle Obama | ||
| d16c165 | This was not me and never would be. I could be supportive, but I couldn't be a robot. | Michelle Obama | ||
| 9041d92 | America, our moment is now," Barack said. "Our moment is now." | Michelle Obama | ||
| 238267b | There were days, weeks, and months when I hated politics. And there were moments when the beauty of this country and its people so overwhelmed me that I couldn't speak. | Michelle Obama | ||
| c16d3af | It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does. It can hurt to walk down a hallway or a open the fridge. It hurts to put on a pair of socks, to brush your teeth. Food tastes like nothing. Colors go flat. Music hurts, and so do memories. You look at something you'd otherwise find beautiful - a purple sky at sunset or a playground full of kids and it only somehow deepens the loss. Grief is so lonely this way. | michelle-obama-quotes | Michelle Obama | |
| da49210 | I'd greet him with a playful fist bump onstage at an event in Minnesota, which would then make headlines, interpreted by one Fox commentator as a "terrorist fist jab," again suggesting that we were dangerous." | Michelle Obama | ||
| 2c82efc | Michelle Obama also was a fan of Hollywood's hypocrisy. After Hillary lost, Michelle said "Any woman who voted against Hillary Clinton voted against their own voice." 1 Michelle, does that mean you listened to your voice and voted for Hillary and against your husband when Hillary ran against him in the primary? Where was your voice on the day your daughter got a job with Harvey?" | Jeanine Pirro | ||
| 78d4048 | A word now about the bar exam: It's a necessary chore, a rite of passage for any just-hatched lawyer wishing to practice, and though the content and structure of the test itself vary somewhat from state to state, the experience of taking it - a two-day, twelve-hour exam meant to prove your knowledge of everything from contract law to arcane rules about secured transactions - is pretty much universally recognized as hellish. | Michelle Obama | ||
| 64ae9b0 | She was also deep. It's what I loved most about Santita. Like me, she could be frivolous and goofy when we were with a larger group, but on our own we'd get ponderous and intense, two | Michelle Obama | ||
| c7c2069 | MICHELLE, MA BELLE Paul McCartney had been awarded the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in a ceremony in the East Room. For most of the evening, other artists performed his songs. But for the conclusion, McCartney went onstage to sing some classics. Then he sang "Michelle" to Michelle Obama. I didn't realize how special the moment was until the next day, when I was talking to the President. What were the odds, he said to me, that an African-.. | Pete Souza | ||
| b3916fb | It went back to my wishes for them to grow up strong and centered and I accommodating to any form of old-school patriarchy: I didn't want them to ever believe that life began when the man of the house arrived home. We didn't wait for Dad. It was his job now to catch up with us. | quotes-to-live-by | Michelle Obama | |
| 2cf9c49 | As Americans obsessed over the threat of terrorism, many were overlooking the racism and tribalism that were tearing our nation apart. | Michelle Obama | ||
| 72fa318 | Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention. | Michelle Obama | ||
| dffbbae | It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does. It can hurt to walk down a hallway or open the fridge. It hurts to put on a pair of socks, to brush your teeth. Food tastes like nothing. Colors go flat. Music hurts, and so do memories. You look | Michelle Obama | ||
| 6ecd802 | Mass incarceration--not attacks on affirmative action or lax civil rights enforcement--is the most damaging manifestation of the backlash against the Civil Rights Movement. The popular narrative that emphasizes the death of slavery and Jim Crow and celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, is dangerously misguided. The colorblind public consensus that prevails in America today--i.e., the widespread belie.. | Michelle Alexander | ||
| 545d32c | Everyone on earth, they'd tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance. | Michelle Obama | ||
| 0613dd0 | It was as if he'd surrendered a part of himself as a way of coping. | Michelle Obama | ||
| be06d0a | If I were to start a file on things nobody tells you about until you're right in the thick of them, I might begin with miscarriages. A miscarriage is lonely, painful, and demoralizing almost on a cellular level. When you have one, you will likely mistake it for a personal failure, which it is not. Or a tragedy, which, regardless of how utterly devastating it feels in the moment, it also is not. What nobody tells you is that miscarriage happ.. | Michelle Obama | ||
| 7f62d41 | If you don't get out there and define yourself, you'll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others. I wasn't interested in slotting myself into a passive role, waiting for Barack's team to give me direction. After coming through the crucible of the last year, I knew that I would never allow myself to get that banged up again. | empowering-women just-do-it | Michelle Obama | |
| 6053f78 | When voters got to see me as a person, they understood that the caricatures were untrue. I've learned that it's harder to hate up close. | Michelle Obama | ||
| 298019d | Optics would always rule our lives. | Michelle Obama | ||
| b875276 | When Barack was first elected, various commentators had naively declared that our country was entering a "postracial" era, in which skin color would no longer matter. Here was proof of how wrong they'd been. As Americans obsessed over the threat of terrorism, many were overlooking the racism and tribalism that were tearing our nation apart." | Michelle Obama | ||
| b292466 | They're not special at all. The South Side is filled with kids like that. | Michelle Obama | ||
| 081945a | Fulfillment, I'm sure, struck her as a rich person's conceit. | Michelle Obama | ||
| 47f300b | I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn't want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement. | Michelle Obama | ||
| df82bbd | Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work. | Michelle Obama | ||
| 2e3a972 | Should assaulting an officer of the state be a capital offense, rendered without trial, with the officer as judge and executioner? Is that what we wish civilization to be? | race-and-racism-in-america | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 412e10b | Powerful people were about to make Nien Cheng their favorite sacrificial lamb--or to die trying. They thought she could be used to discredit their opponents. The ransacking of her house had been only a first step. | Charles W. Colson | ||
| d327d16 | Virtually every Chinese citizen whom I came to know well was doing something technically illegal, although usually the infraction was so minor that they didn't have to worry. It might be a sketchy apartment registration or a small business that bought its products from unlicensed wholesalers. Sometimes, it was comic: late at night, there were always people out walking their dogs in Beijing, because the official dog registration was ridiculo.. | Peter Hessler | ||
| 3772081 | Wo Licht ist muss es auch Schatten geben, und wo Schatten ist, gibt es Licht. Es gibt keinen Schatten ohne Licht und kein Licht ohne Schatten. (C.G. Jung) | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 77eb710 | The present day shows with appalling clarity how little able people are to let the other man's argument count, although this capacity is a fundamental and indispensable condition for any human community. Everyone who proposes to come to terms with himself must reckon with this basic problem. For, to the degree that he does not admit the validity of the other person, he denies the "other" within himself the right to exist--and vice versa. Th.. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 643fa91 | Suma unui milion de zerouri nu face nici macar unu. | mass psychology | C.G. Jung | |
| 6e15908 | Az razlichavam chuvstvoto ot afekta, v'preki che prekhod't k'm afekta e plaven, t'i kato vsiako chuvstvo, kogato dostigne izvestna sila, zadeistva telesni inervatsii, a tova se prevr'shcha v afekt. | C.G. Jung |