Herbert Gutman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing American popular and mass culture.
-- Herbert Gutman

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If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.
When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.
Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.
I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.
Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.
I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
The outcome of this culture of discrimination is that young people are routinely denied the roles in society they can, should, and need to be occupying.
I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.
The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and that feminist studies are "unscholarly," "biased," and "ideological" dies hard. Yet the fact is that all science, and all scholarship, and all art are ideological; there is no neutrality in culture!

Herbert Gutman famous quotes

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