"The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed."

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Source : William Blum (2003). “Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II”, p.15, Zed Books

William Blum

#Media Quotes #Fabric Quotes #May Quotes

“No obligation to do the impossible is binding.”
“The material of typography is the black, and it is the designerâ€™s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them.”
“I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You've been awesome, but now it's my turn to be my own man.'”
“Five-foot-8 is a perfectly normal height for a woman - it's slightly but not at all unusually tall and certainly shouldn't be causing you any torment.”
“I believe it's our responsibility as citizens to get in there and not accept the constant failure of prisons to deal with racism, lack of privilege, and impoverishment - not accept any of that. Just get in there!”

Source : Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003.
“I try to keep the happy memories. If that's what you call selective memories, I'm good with that.”
“At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.”
“Man Made 'God' in his own image. The eternal, the infinate, the unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as 'my god' or 'our god'.”

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