"The Africans were oftentimes allied with the antagonist of the Republic. Now, you may want to step back and ask yourself why that might be. It may lead you to a reconsideration of the origins of the nation now known as the United States of America. As opposed to seeing it in the same vein as the French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution, you might see it in the same vein as the revolt against British rule in Rhodesia in 1965, and, if so, that might help to shed light on why conservatism is so deeply entrenched in this republic."

Source : Source: politicalaffairs.net

Gerald Horne

#Light Quotes #America Quotes #Veins Quotes

“Because white men canâ€™t police their imaginations, black men are dying.”
“Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world. Whatsoever life we meet will be as strange and alien as the nightmare creatures of the ocean abyss, or of the insect empire whose horrors are normally hidden from us by their microscopic scale.”
“The brain heals the past like an injury ...”

Source : Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.431, Bloomsbury Publishing
“The country which is in advance of the rest of the world in chemistry will also be foremost in wealth and in general prosperity.”

Source : William Ramsay (1909). “Essays Biographical and Chemical”
“I have brightness in my soul, which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird!”
“Here's the thing: I am not beautiful. I'm pretty. I'll allow that much. Pretty. But I'm not the girl boys long for.”

Source : Katherine Applegate, Michael Grant (2012). “Eve and Adam”, p.33, Egmont UK
“it is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's face ...”

Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”
“There's a switch inside every one of us that I guess grew there as a necessary part of survival. How can you drag a fish up out of the river for your supper if you feel the yank of the hook in your own cheek? I get that part. We can't feel for everyone and everything all the time. We'd die of fear or sorrow a hundred times a day. The thing is, it's gotten so we flick the switch off like it's nothing. And, more often than not, we forget to turn it back on.”

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