"The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was really the first place where there was a large scale emancipation experiment."

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Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 20, 2010.

Laurent Dubois

#Firsts Quotes #Revolution Quotes #Remember Quotes

“Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the core of the Temple, it had also scorched the life from a city, this night, and spewed its venom over the land. How strange of God to speak from a burning bush, and of Man to make a symbol of Heaven into a symbol of Hell.”

Source : Walter M. Miller Jr (2014). “A Canticle For Leibowitz”, p.156, Hachette UK
“What do you think it is?" "It could be anything from a lawn trimmer to a bomb, for all I know." "I would never build a lawn trimmer," Myrnin said. "What did the lawn ever do to me?”
“I am committed to doing customer service for Craigslist for the rest of my life. The exit strategy is death.”
“I know what I like; if you go to my closet, I have at least four of everything.”
“The state has an active role to play in ensuring that there is equilibrium between the constituent parts of the economy, the consumers and the producers.”
“But high up on the mountain When the wind is hitting it If you're watching very closely The rock slips a little bit...”
“We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.”

Source : Wendy Lesser (2014). “Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books”, p.40, Macmillan
“He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.”

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