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| 82c3fb8 | In the thirty years leading up to the Civil War, the law was increasingly interpreted in the courts to suit the capitalist development of the country. Studying this, Morton Horwitz (The Transformation of American Law) points out that the English commonlaw was no longer holy when it stood in the way of business growth. Mill owners were given the legal right to destroy other people's property by flood to carry on their business. The law of "e.. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 3d9c3b4 | cult of true womanhood" could not completely erase what was visible as evidence of woman's subordinate status: she could not vote, could not own property; when she did work, her wages were one-fourth to one-half what men earned in the same job. Women were excluded from the professions of law and medicine, from colleges, from the ministry." | Howard Zinn | ||
| d69e31e | We need to dig under the rubble of war and point out that the Bush administration is using the war as a cover for worsening the income gap in this country, while paying no attention to the problems of most of the American people, while enriching corporations. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 559f844 | In Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in 1824, came the first known strike of women factory workers; 202 women joined men in protesting a wage cut and longer hours, but they met separately. Four years later, women in Dover, New Hampshire, struck alone. And in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1834, when a young woman was fired from her job, other girls left their looms, one of them then climbing the town pump and making, according to a newspaper report, "a f.. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 6b9b1dd | pounds...." Thomas Jefferson had written a paragraph of the Declaration accusing the King of transporting slaves from Africa to the colonies and "suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce." This seemed to express moral indignation against slavery and the slave trade (Jefferson's personal distaste for slavery must be put alongside the fact that he owned hundreds of slaves to the day he died). Be.. | Howard Zinn | ||
| f79f437 | He opposed slavery, but could not see blacks as equals, so a constant theme in his approach was to free the slaves and to send them back to Africa. In his 1858 campaign in Illinois for the Senate against Stephen Douglas, Lincoln spoke differently depending on the views of his listeners (and also perhaps depending on how close it was to the election). Speaking in northern Illinois in July (in Chicago), he said: Let us discard all this quibbl.. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 5f68319 | Home labor in cultured lands, appeased and misled by a ballot whose power the dictatorship of vast capital strictly curtailed, was bribed by high wage and political office to unite in an exploitation of white, yellow, brown and black labor, in lesser lands. . . . | Howard Zinn | ||
| 491723c | came to be known as the Federalist Papers (opponents of the Constitution became known as anti-Federalists). In Federalist Paper # 10, James Madison argued that representative government was needed to maintain peace in a society ridden by factional disputes. These disputes came from "the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society." The problem.. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 4bf91b1 | Benjamin Franklin wrote in 1753, "When white persons of either sex have been taken prisoners young by the Indians, and lived awhile among them, tho' ransomed by their Friends, and treated with all imaginable tenderness to prevail with them to stay among the English, yet in a Short time they become disgusted with our manner of life, and the care and pains that are necessary to support it, and take the first good Opportunity of escaping again.. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 4cc4c21 | The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young. --JAMES HOLLIS, FINDING MEANING IN THE SECOND HALF OF LIFE | Richard Rohr | ||
| bacc749 | Captain," said Bluebell, "do you know what the first blade of grass said to the second blade of grass?" Hazel looked at him sharply, but Holly replied, "Well?" "It said, 'Look, there's a rabbit! We're in danger!" | Richard Adams | ||
| 8986d5f | I was in a round the world hot-air balloon race. Before I left, I wrote a long letter to my children, in case I didn't return. I started the letter by saying, 'Dear Holly and | Richard Branson | ||
| 385a622 | He's a little ray of sunshine, your partner." "I look at him as my last training test. Can I work with him long enough without shooting him to get a promotion?" | Richard Kadrey | ||
| ee68be5 | CANDY AND ALESSA are practicing in the storeroom. One of them is burning through "Miserlou" and the other sounds like she's falling down the stairs with a boxful of cats. But she keeps playing. Good for her." | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 76e0b00 | How long has it been since I've seen sunlight? Down in the asshole of creation, it was a dim, perpetual crimson-and-magenta twilight. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| d67adae | THERE'S ONLY ONE problem with L.A. It exists. L.A. is what happens when a bunch of Lovecraftian elder gods and porn starlets spend a weekend locked up in the Chateau Marmont snorting lines of crank off Jim Morrison's bones. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| b8c6d05 | SOCIETY IS A CARNIVOROUS FLOWER | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 9855fe3 | What I do know is that once said, "Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed-wire handle." | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 9ad74b7 | She kisses me on the cheek and runs back into Donut Universe. People in line glare at me, wondering why I rate special treatment. I saved your lives, assholes. Let me have a fucking donut. C | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 33f9185 | Really, Cooper, you're in good hands. We can't afford any more employee homicides until the next fiscal quarter," said Woolrich. "If you try just a little harder, I think you can be even less reassuring." "Think" | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 3fc7f6a | Hell doesn't run on prayers or promises. Downtown magic is about reaching out and grabbing what you want, and that requires payment. An offering. Blood. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| e01fe20 | Where are we going?" "For ice cream. What's your favorite flavor?" "Fuck you." "That's my favorite, too." | Richard Kadrey | ||
| aa334dd | Reality is a two-ton weight strapped to your balls. And they just keep getting heavier. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 772d855 | Cash is the magic that anyone can do. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| f41a6b0 | Black magic on Earth isn't so different and it's why so many dark magicians dress like cashiers at Hot Topic. Black is a good color anytime you're flinging around blood. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 7f4ee5b | You still think I have a good side?" "There's a search party out for it but I'm optimistic they'll turn up something." | Richard Kadrey | ||
| b148125 | It's not something you think about, it just happens. You fall into the orbit of friends and familiar faces. You don't even have to like each other. You just have to be there to remind each other that you survived and that this is real. I'm sure there's a scientific name for it. The old fighters just called it Tea Time. Geryon | Richard Kadrey | ||
| e6db385 | Lucifer was his name in Perdition. In Heaven, he's Samael. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 14f0e8f | Quid salvum est si Roma perit?" What is safe if Rome perishes?" | Richard Kadrey | ||
| f602251 | Beautiful. Now I have to burrow like a groundhog into Mason's basement to the same room where he summoned those things to take me Downtown. Nothing can possibly go wrong with this plan. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| bb1bebc | I don't believe in conspiracies. Guys will say anything to get laid. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| a3a1ce1 | Of course, aside from fear, the God business runs on sentimentality. That's the only explanation. Unless it's a real estate scam. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 57847c3 | That's how you know someone likes you. Anyone can give you chocolate and flowers, but when they'll disembowel someone for you? That's true love. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 583b877 | Carlos comes back with our drinks. "What should we drink to?" "To love," says Brigitte. "To the few loyal customers I have left," says Carlos. I have to think for a minute. "To the dead. Let's think of them always, but not join them too soon." Everyone in the bar drinks to that." | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 7c8a525 | I never liked Michael, and since he tried to kill me, I like him even less. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| e9d8c4c | Kasabian's head is still under the bed. I pull it out and set it on his chest, then grab his body by the ankles and drag him into the Cube. I straighten the arms and legs, set Kas's head back on its shoulders, and generally try to make him look more like a respectable human being and less like a big pile of loser jerky. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| a081150 | Then you better tell whoever is Lucifer, because I'm living in his palace, wearing his clothes, and peeing in his shower. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 0bb3203 | Oh God, look what you did." "God's away on business, Kas. Talk to me." | humor | Richard Kadrey | |
| 2f5485e | If I'm going to ride this out and stay alive, then I'm king high ballbuster. I took on God and almost did the old man in. A few grumpy horns and hoofs types and a petting zoo full of rabid Pokemons? I'm Satan. I can deal that and play "Smoke on the Water" while getting a lap dance on a runaway train all at the same time." | Richard Kadrey | ||
| ae6b669 | When I was Downtown, I learned a lot about making threats. Make them big. Make them outrageous. You're never going to kick someone's ass. You're going to pull out their tongue and pour liquid nitrogen down their throat, chip out their guts with an ice pick, slide in a pane of glass, and turn them into an aquarium. | threats torture | Richard Kadrey | |
| 7add094 | Young vampires are all assholes. It's part of their job description. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 93798c2 | It's more than coping. It's adaptation. You go into the dark one species and mutate to fit your surroundings. Grow better eyes and ears. Get used to the feel of the air so you can tell when something is coming at you. After a while you're so suited to the environment you're a whole new species. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 0928410 | And you're going to do that all by yourself?" "If I pray real hard, I'm sure I can get the baby Jesus to watch over me." "You just blew up a church," says Candy. "Okay. The Devil then." "That's more like it." | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 604f736 | The sound of fighting, even movie fighting, is weirdly comforting when I'm falling asleep. | Richard Kadrey |