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A truly great book - enjoyable, engrossing, and hugely interesting. There were times I was reminded of Proust, with some wonderfully insightful moments, both descriptive and analytical. It takes one through the changes in Egyptian life, or at least t
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"I recall few books with such vivid characters, more of which I shall no doubt say later." — Aug 21, 2013 03:34PM
"I recall few books with such vivid characters, more of which I shall no doubt say later." — Aug 21, 2013 03:34PM
“The prejudice of race is superficially the most irrational of all prejudices, and by a perfectly comprehensible reaction the Paris workers, from indifference in 1789, had come by this time to detest no section of the aristocracy so much as those whom they called "the aristocrats of the skin.”
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“I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.”
― Proust
― Proust
“Thousands of brave black soldiers were dead for no other crime than that of refusing to be slaves once more. The colony was devastated, and blacks and whites were murdering each other with a growing ferocity, in what was called a race war, but whose origin was not in their different colours but in the greed of the French bourgeoisie.”
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“It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves.”
― The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
― The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
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