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“You cannot abolish bonds of kinship cemented in faith, religion, culture, tradition, and laws. But a nation? A nation can be destroyed.”
― We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
― We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
“Alone, mud-streaked, with weariness sinking into her very bones, a question haunted her—
Was this freedom?
The empty forest. Her fleeing, sick with dread. Was this what they had hoped for, all along?”
― River Sing Me Home
Was this freedom?
The empty forest. Her fleeing, sick with dread. Was this what they had hoped for, all along?”
― River Sing Me Home
“The West’s adversarial political system, in which all manner of decisions were made by majority rule, was little more than a refined version of civil war, replacing one form of coercion (fighting) with another (voting).”
― To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
― To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
“The deeper drama was not between signers and non signers, but within each individual signer. Putting one’s name on an open petition marked ‘a step toward internal liberation—and for many that step was decisive. This or that particular signature might have no significance whatsoever for the country’s political situation, but for the signer himself, it could become a kind of catharsis.”
― To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
― To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
“The notion that successful reform can emerge exclusively from within the ruling elite belongs among Russia’s most enduring and self-perpetuating myths, shared by figures as diverse as Gorbachev and Putin. Reforms initiated from outside the elite, so the argument goes, are doomed to failure, mass violence, or both. Never mind that such reforms have often been stymied by the elite itself, fearful of losing its monopoly of power, or that numerous reforms initiated from above have failed miserably.”
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