When feminist impulses are recorded, they are, almost always, the writings of privileged women who had some status from which to speak freely, more opportunity to write and have their writings recorde...
There is not a country in world history in which racism has been more important, for so long a time, as the United States.
There is an extent of riches, as well as an extreme of poverty, which, by harrowing the circles of a man’s acquaintance, lessens his opportunities of general knowledge.
The police force was dominantly Irish, and the official investigation of the riot indicated the police helped the rioters: … it appears that charges of unprovoked and most brutal clubbing have been ma...
The Albany police chief, after one of the mass arrests, was taking the names of prisoners lined up before his desk. He looked up and saw a Negro boy about nine years old. What’s your name? The boy loo...
Starting with Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia, by 1760, there had been eighteen uprisings aimed at overthrowing colonial governments. There had also been six black rebellions, from South Carolina to New...
Speaking of California, the Illinois State Register asked: Shall this garden of beauty be suffered to lie dormant in its wild and useless luxuriance? . . . myriads of enterprising Americans would floc...
One way was Taylorism. Frederick W. Taylor had been a steel company foreman who closely analyzed every job in the mill, and worked out a system of finely detailed division of labor, increased mechaniz...
Night blanketed weary men who fell asleep where they dropped on the trampled prairie grass, while around them other prostrate men from both armies screamed and groaned in agony from wounds. By the eer...
My image of a Communist was not a Soviet bureaucrat but my friend Leon’s father, a cabdriver who came home from work bruised and bloody one day, beaten up by his employer’s goons (yes, that word was s...
James was part of a movement of prominent American businessmen, politicians, and intellectuals who formed the Anti-Imperialist League in 1898 and carried on a long campaign to educate the American pub...
I’ll never forget that day. It confirmed what I learned from my Spelman years, that education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the
I’ll never forget that day. It confirmed what I learned from my Spelman years, that education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.)
It was the job of education, he said, to smash through this make-believe and give black people a realistic picture of themselves and of the world.
It is not that the historian can avoid emphasis of some facts and not of others. This is as natural to him as to the mapmaker, who, in order to produce a usable drawing for practical purposes, must fi...
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. . . . Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily mad...
In the vision of the Mohawk chief Hiawatha, the legendary Dekaniwidah spoke to the Iroquois: We bind ourselves together by taking hold of each other’s hands so firmly and forming a circle so strong th...
In Maryland, for instance, by the new constitution of 1776, to run for governor one had to own 5,000 pounds of property; to run for state senator, 1,000 pounds. Thus, 90 percent of the population were...
I remember my first reading of The Communist Manifesto, which Marx and Engels wrote when they too were young radicals; Marx was thirty, Engels twenty-eight. The history of all hitherto existing societ...
Dan Berrigan wrote a Meditation at the time of the Catonsville incident:Our apologies good friends for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderli...