Thomas Chaney

“Mohr, a colleague and protégé, resigned from the faculty to preach the joys of illiteracy, and a number of Wittenberg undergraduates, seeing no point in further study, left their lecture halls to become craftsmen.”
― William Manchester, A World Lit Only by Fire

“Prosecution, defense—it don’t make a hair’s difference one way or the other. I thought”
― William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner

“The point is that you are animate chattel and animate chattel is capable of craft and connivery and wily stealth. You ain’t a wagon, Reverend, but chattel that possesses moral choice and spiritual volition.”
― William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner

“As for Lassalle, he became the victim of Marx’s most brutal anti-Semitic and racial sneers: he was ‘Baron Itzig’, ‘the Jewish Nigger’, ‘a greasy Jew disguised under brilliantine and cheap jewels’.”
― Paul Johnson, Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky