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| 3eaeabe | For what people of color quickly come to see--in a sense the primary epistemic principle of the racialized social epistemology of which they are the object--is that they are not seen at all. Correspondingly, the "central metaphor" of W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk is the image of the "veil,"20 and the black American cognitive equivalent of the shocking moment of Cartesian realization of the uncertainty of everything one had take.. | Charles W. Mills | ||
| 3060a9b | Furthermore, some of the best people in the country were connected with the Communist movement in some way, heroes and heroines one could admire. There was Paul Robeson, the fabulous singer-actor-athlete whose magnificent voice could fill Madison Square Garden, crying out against racial injustice, against fascism. And literary figures (weren't Theodore Dreiser and W. E. B. DuBois Communists?), | Howard Zinn | ||
| eb380e9 | We the darker ones come even now not altogether empty-handed: there are to-day no truer exponents of the pure human spirit of the Declaration of Independence than the American Negroes; there is no true American music but the wild sweet melodies of the Negro slave; the American fairy tales and folklore are Indian and African; and, all in all, we black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smar.. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 068b21f | The Music of Negro religion is that plaintive rhythmic melody, with its touching minor cadences, which, despite caricature and defilement, still remains the most original and beautiful expression of human life and longing yet born on American soil. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 6d8b66b | The Irish were regarded as shiftless and drunken; moreover, they were papists, and their fealty to Rome, it was said, meant they could never become loyal Americans. They were subjected to severe discrimination in employment and were despised by genteel society. W.E.B. Du Bois, the black scholar, testified that when he grew up in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in the 1870s, "the racial angle was more clearly defined against the Irish than .. | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. | ||
| b234a9d | I know many souls that toss and whirl and pass, but none there are that intrigue me more than the Souls of White Folk. Of them I am singularly clairvoyant. I see in and through them. I view them from unusual points of vantage. Not as a foreigner do I come, for I am native, not foreign, bone of their thought and flesh of their language. Mine is not the knowledge of the traveler or the colonial composite of dear memories, words and wonder. No.. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 39114b1 | The most piteous thing amid all the black ruin of war-time," W. E. B. Du Bois would write a generation afterward, "amid the broken fortunes of the masters, the blighted hopes of mothers and maidens, and the fall of an empire,--the most piteous thing amid all this was the black freedman who threw down his hoe because the world called him free. What did such a mockery of freedom mean? Not a cent of money, not an inch of land, not a mouthful o.. | Richard Kluger | ||
| baf8931 | We seldom study the condition of the Negro to-day honestly and carefully. It is so much easier to assume that we know it all. Or perhaps, having already reached conclusions in our own minds, we are loth to have them disturbed by facts. And yet how little we really know of these millions,--of their daily lives and longings, of their homely joys and sorrows, of their real shortcomings and the meaning of their crimes! All this we can only lear.. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 028b871 | greed can corrupt a state and that a public official who betrays his trust "ought to feel the utmost rigor of public resentment and be detested as a traitor of the worst and most dangerous kind." | Ron Chernow | ||
| cd52a88 | It was probably at this point that a pregnant Eliza first smiled and shook hands with her husband's future executioner. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 96687b1 | I'll lay a bet," said Sancho, "that before long there won't be a tavern, roadside inn, hostelry, or barber's shop where the story of our doings won't be painted up; but I'd like it painted by the hand of a better painter than painted these." "Thou art right, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "for this painter is like Orbaneja, a painter there was at Ubeda, who when they asked him what he was painting, used to say, 'Whatever it may turn out'; and i.. | Michael Gruber | ||
| 9294e0c | Love is not a thought; it is an action verb. It is not a thing, but an expression. You can't love in a vacuum; love demands an object. It demands a relationship. "N" | Joel Salatin | ||
| 3149d86 | The United States now has too few farmers to merit counting on the national census form. As a culture, we don't cook at home. We don't have a larder. We're tuned in, plugged in, addicted to electronic gadgetry to the exclusion of a whippoorwill's midsummer song or a herd of cows lying down contentedly on the leeward side of a slope, indicating a thunderstorm in the offing. Most modern Americans can't conceive of a time without supermarkets,.. | Joel Salatin | ||
| e74ddec | The sheer mystery and majesty of heritage wisdom, contained in each cell, each mitochondria, instills in the farmer who respects and honors the pigness of the pig a daily emotional high. The satisfaction of being nature's nurturer always trumps the short-lived adrenaline high of being nature's conqueror. Such an attitude offers spiritual ascendance over physical domination, which never really happens anyway. And that's why the industrial fa.. | organic-farming | Joel Salatin | |
| 1fe565e | Radical Homemakers, Shannon Hayes describes | Joel Salatin | ||
| 8f91b43 | Every day when I wake up and head out for chores, I'm struck by the beauty we enjoy on our farm. Based on visitors' comments, that's a shared awareness. Not one of our doors has a skull and crossbones. We want visitors to be struck not by what we've done, but rather by how we've caressed this beautiful niche of God's creation into a productive and profoundly inspiring place. | organic-farming | Joel Salatin | |
| e50e8fc | When a container of foreign goodies arrives in the village, everyone mobs the freebies and takes the Western handouts. This collapses the local business and these displaced go-getters become the famous warlords we in the West have all learned are the nexus of all those people's problems. | Joel Salatin | ||
| 0011e43 | Today's orthodoxy thrives on someone else doing the cooking. The single-service packet from the supermarket has replaced the sit-down home-cooked meal as the most common food choice. Easy foodism disengages people from the process and creates a level of food illiteracy unthinkable just a few short decades ago. | food home-cooking | Joel Salatin | |
| e7b8426 | Look, if you need sexy egg cartons to sell our eggs, then you need to educate your customers. We don't intend to patronize big oil just so we can sell eggs at Whole Foods. | Joel Salatin | ||
| 38c46df | I see it routinely when I get asked to speak at conferences. I'm supposed to come cheap because, after all, I'm just a farmer. If you're smart and capable, you become a doctor, engineer, lawyer, computer technician --- anything white collar. For goodness' sake, don't wear a blue collar. That makes your mother and me a failure and our friends will wonder about our family. | Joel Salatin | ||
| 0b9004f | Most of the earth's land is not conducive to arable cropping. Only a tiny percentage is good enough for that. Grasslands are literally the lungs of the earth, and restoring them with animals is not only necessary, but it's the most efficacious way to restore water cycles and the carbon cycle. Right now, nothing else comes close to remediating broken ecological systems as quickly or completely as restoring large herds of grazing animals thro.. | grasslands | Joel Salatin | |
| 624a626 | I liken modern scientists to conquistadors. They have no idea what they're dealing with, but they're going to conquer it, whatever it is --- all in the name of God. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not opposed to scientific discovery and exploration. I love this stuff. What I despise is reckless disregard for how little we know. We create trans fats with nary a question about whether they're good for us or not. We develop a food pyramid with ca.. | healthy-living humility science | Joel Salatin | |
| b354a53 | the government must degenerate either into an absolute and despotic monarchy or a tyrannical aristocracy. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 7d585c4 | The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. | Ron Chernow | ||
| e2f145f | In a moment of acute anxiety a year earlier, John Adams had wondered what would happen if "the multitude, the vulgar, the herd, the rabble" maintained such open defiance of authority. 13" | Ron Chernow | ||
| c57ff5e | Rawlins was soon sidetracked from the war effort, however, by word from his wife, Emily, staying with her family in Goshen, New York, that she suffered from consumption; Rawlins would shortly leave to join her. | Ron Chernow | ||
| ce2e6a8 | Another female observer found Madison entertaining in private but "mute, cold, and repulsive" in company." | Ron Chernow | ||
| 3aa1355 | Despite incessant disappointment, he doggedly pursued a position. Each morning, he left his boardinghouse at eight o'clock, clothed in a dark suit with a high collar and black tie, to make his rounds of appointed firms. This grimly determined trek went on each day--six days a week for six consecutive weeks--until late in the afternoon. The streets were so hot and hard that he grew footsore from pacing them. His perseverance surely owed some.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| e7cf36e | He had a great general's ability to focus on his goals and brush aside obstacles as petty distractions. "You can abuse me, you can strike me," Rockefeller said, "so long as you let me have my own way." | Ron Chernow | ||
| e89ae08 | the Ku Klux Klan Act. He had planned a California trip that spring, but canceled it in the belief that he couldn't sidestep this historic moment. The strong new measure laid down criminal penalties for depriving citizens of their rights under the Fourteenth Amendment, including holding office, sitting on a jury, or casting a vote. The federal government could prosecute such cases when state governments refused to act. The law also endowed G.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| e24cf2c | By 1872, under Grant's leadership, the Ku Klux Klan had been smashed in the South. (Its later twentieth-century incarnation had no connection to the earlier group other than a common style and ideology.) | Ron Chernow | ||
| 12b2964 | In closing, Washington referred to the character of Jesus, "the Divine author of our blessed religion."32" | Ron Chernow | ||
| 7c82e16 | say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to mankind, 'Had this day been wanting, the world had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.'"57" | Ron Chernow | ||
| 8fc4d02 | Growing up as a miniature adult, burdened with duties, he developed an exaggerated sense of responsibility that would be evident throughout his life. | Ron Chernow | ||
| aacb53d | One of Rockefeller's favorite stories reveals her coolheaded response to danger: Mother had whooping cough and was staying in her room so that we should not catch it. When she heard thieves trying to get at the back of the house and remembered that there was no man to protect us, she softly opened the window and began to sing some old Negro melody, just as if the family were up and about. The robbers turned away from the house, crossed the .. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 85a15b6 | Like most people, Hamilton and Adams were preternaturally sensitive to flaws in the other that they themselves possessed. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 2d361f5 | Far from hiding Black Jack, the irascible John Custis doted on him, and when the little boy was five, he submitted a petition to the governor to free the boy "christened John but commonly called Jack, born of the body of his Negro wench young Alice."19 To celebrate his emancipation, the boy was given four slaves as playmates.20 Obviously John Custis didn't rate very highly as a child psychologist." | Ron Chernow | ||
| 8042d3f | In his early days in business, Rockefeller often suffered from severe neck pains that might have indicated stress on the job, and he turned to horses as a therapeutic diversion. "I would leave my office in the afternoon and drive a pair of fast horses as hard as they could go: trot, break, gallop--everything."4" | Ron Chernow | ||
| 9627149 | Walt Whitman, who ardently followed the Overland Campaign: "When did [Grant] ever turn back? He was not that sort; he could no more turn back than time! . . . Grant was one of the inevitables; he always arrived; he was invincible as a law: he never bragged--often seemed about to be defeated when he was in fact on the eve of a tremendous victory" -- | Ron Chernow | ||
| c4fc322 | To survive, he continued to hawk firewood on the St. Louis streets and the time thus spent destroyed any chance of prospering as a farmer: "I regard every load of wood taken, when the services of both myself and team are required on the farm, is a direct loss of more than the value of the load."114" | Ron Chernow | ||
| 20fcc79 | A group of Wall Street admirers created for Grant a $250,000 Presidential Retiring Fund, which would not only yield $15,000 in annual interest but reinforce his image as overly beholden to the rich. To supplement his income, Grant returned to his | Ron Chernow | ||
| c9f188b | As his life steadily unraveled, he pawned his gold watch and chain for $20 on December 23, 1857, to purchase Christmas presents for his children--perhaps the symbolic nadir of his life. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 49a224c | It is unclear how closely Grant followed current affairs as the national debate over slavery broadened and intensified. Through the Compromise of 1850, California was admitted as a free state while other territories wrested from Mexico were left free to adopt slavery or not. In exchange, the North appeased the South by submitting to a strict new fugitive slave law that made many northerners feel like accomplices in the hated institution of .. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 8f44e3a | the works of Locke, Montesquieu, Hobbes, and Hume, as well as those of such reigning legal sages as Sir William Blackstone, Hugo Grotius, and Samuel von Pufendorf. He was especially taken with the jurist Emmerich de Vattel, | Ron Chernow |