Babel
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English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular.
“Carl Degler says (Out of Our Past): “No new social class came to power through the door of the American revolution. The men who engineered the revolt were largely members of the colonial ruling class.” George Washington was the richest man in America. John Hancock was a prosperous Boston merchant. Benjamin Franklin was a wealthy printer. And so on.”
― A People's History of the United States
― A People's History of the United States
“The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don’t listen to it, you will never know what justice is.”
― A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
― A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
“English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular.”
― Babel
― Babel
“If there are necessary sacrifices to be made for human progress, is it not essential to hold to the principle that those to be sacrificed must make the decision themselves? We can all decide to give up something of ours, but do we have the right to throw into the pyre the children of others, or even our own children, for a progress which is not nearly as clear or present as sickness or health, life or death?”
― A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
― A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
“African slavery lacked two elements that made American slavery the most cruel form of slavery in history: the frenzy for limitless profit that comes from capitalistic agriculture; the reduction of the slave to less than human status by the use of racial hatred, with that relentless clarity based on color, where white was master, black was slave.”
― A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
― A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
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