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It had been 1914, the fighting in its earliest stages, when Shackleton lost contact with the outside world. “Tell me,” he asked the first man he encountered. “When was the war over?” “The war is not over,” he was told. “Millions are being
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“The street gangs,” in the words of Alan Bullock, “had seized control of the resources of a great modern State, the gutter had come to power.” But—as Hitler never ceased to boast—“legally,” by an overwhelming vote of Parliament. The Germans had no one to blame but themselves.”
― The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
― The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
― Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
― Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
“The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.”
― The Collected Poems
― The Collected Poems
“The amendments’ “plain purpose,” he wrote, was to place under national jurisdiction “the whole subject” of citizens’ rights. But too many rights had been lost as soon as they reached “that grave of liberty, the Supreme Court of the United States.”50”
― The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
― The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
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