All you have to do, gentlemen, for you have the numbers, is to unite on one idea - that the workingmen shall rule the country. What man makes, belongs to him, and the workingman made this country.
ATTENTIONANTI-RENTERS! AWAKE! AROUSE! . . . Strike till the last armed foe expires, Strike for your altars and your fires-Strike for the green graves of your sires, God and your happy homes!
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Some of the New York Radical Women shortly afterward formed WITCH (Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell) and its members, dressed as witches, appeared suddenly on the floor of the New...
Only one fear was greater than the fear of black rebellion in the new American colonies.
But the idea of a peace dividend could not be stifled so long as Americans were in need. Shortly after the war, historian Marilyn Young warned:The U.S. can destroy Iraq's highways, but not build its o...
Grievances of the lowest classes mingled with
Whatever we poor men may not have, we have free speech, and no one can take it from us.
We need to dig under the rubble of war and point out that the Bush administration is using the war as a cover for worsening the income gap in this country, while paying no attention to the problems of...
The true task of education, Alfred North Whitehead cautioned, is to abjure stale knowledge. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish, he said. We need to keep it alive, vital, potent.
The President of the United States isn't going to solve our problems. The problems are too big.
The Fourteenth Amendment repudiated the prewar Dred Scott decision by declaring that all persons born or naturalized in the United States were citizens. It also seemed to make a powerful statement for...
Paine’s pamphlet appealed to a wide range of colonial opinion angered by England. But it caused some tremors in aristocrats like John Adams, who were with the patriot cause but wanted to make sure it...
It appeared March 9, 1960, dramatically, on a full page of the Constitution under a huge headline, AN APPEAL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, and it created a sensation: We … have joined our hearts, minds, and bodie...
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Unemployment, hard times, were growing in 1914. Could guns divert attention and create some national consensus against an external enemy? It surely was a coincidence—the bombardment of Vera Cruz, the...
The prisons in the United States had long been an extreme reflection of the American system itself: the stark life differences between rich and poor, the racism, the use of victims against one another...
The New Yorker Cadwallader Colden, in his Address to the Freeholders in 1747, attacked the wealthy as tax dodgers unconcerned with the welfare of others (although he himself was wealthy) and spoke for...
The Mexicans had fired the first shot. But they had done what the American government wanted, according to Colonel Hitchcock, who wrote in his diary, even before those first incidents:I have said from...
Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper in Ruleville, Mississippi, became legendary as organizer and speaker. She sang hymns; she walked picket lines with her familiar limp (as a child she contracted po...