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Book cover for The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
It was the question of the hour; generalized, it was the question on which hung the fate of the British empire. Who were these Americans? To the British they were Britons, albeit of a turbulent sort. The Americans might live across the ...more
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Blake Butler
“Not dying when everybody else did die is like dying harder than everybody else.”
Blake Butler, Three Hundred Million

W.H. Pugmire
“Dykes, kikes, spics, micks, fags, drags, gooks, spooks . . . more of us are outsiders than aren’t; and that’s what the dear young ones too often fail to understand. They think they’ve learned it all by age fifteen. Perhaps they have. But they’re not the only ones who’ve learned it.”
W.H. Pugmire, An Imp of Aether

H.W. Brands
“When an acquaintance commiserated upon hearing of the loss of America’s capital, Franklin replied, “You mistake the matter. Instead of Howe taking Philadelphia, Philadelphia has taken Howe.”
H.W. Brands, The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

b. binaohan
“Show me just *one* group that has won its freedom with facts, ‘reasoned’ arguments, thoughtful ideas, and loud debates. Just one.”
b. binaohan, i just want freedom

Mikki Kendall
“Ignoring the treatment of the most marginalized women doesn’t set a standard that can protect any women. Instead it sets up arbitrary respectability-centered goalposts against which all women are supposed to measure their behavior. That’s not freedom; that’s just a more elaborate series of cages that will never be comfortable or safe. Any system that makes basic human rights contingent on a narrow standard of behavior pits potential victims against each other and only benefits those who would prey on them.”
Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

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