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“If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.”
― Red Azalea: A Memoir
― Red Azalea: A Memoir
“One foreign correspondent came up to be friendly. He asked this man what he should think about what Khomeini had said. How seriously should he take it? Was it just a rhetorical flourish or something genuinely dangerous? “Oh, don’t worry too much,” the journalist said. “Khomeini sentences the president of the United States to death every Friday afternoon.”
― Joseph Anton: A Memoir
― Joseph Anton: A Memoir
“A legacy, especially of a prolonged movement, tends to endure for a long time. But no legacy, however strong and sound, can last forever. It tends to erode and become irrelevant unless it is constantly reinforced and developed and sometimes transcended in a creative manner to suit the changing circumstances.”
― India After Independence: 1947-2000
― India After Independence: 1947-2000
“A comfortable prison was still a prison.”
― Joseph Anton: A Memoir
― Joseph Anton: A Memoir
“Is there a “national interest” when a few people decide on war, and huge numbers of others—here and abroad—are killed or crippled as a result of such a decision? Should citizens not ask in whose interest are we doing what we are doing? Then why not, I came to think, tell the story of wars not through the eyes of the generals and diplomats but from the viewpoints of the GIs, of the parents who received the black-bordered telegrams, even of “the enemy.”
― 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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