“Comrades, we love the sun that gives us light, but if the rich and the aggressors were to try to monopolize the sun, we should say:
“Let the sun be extinguished, let darkness reign, eternal night…”
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“Let the sun be extinguished, let darkness reign, eternal night…”
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“American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of the discovery and political founding of the American nation. If you like your history heroic—and many people seem to—the story of slavery in the early American period is simply not the place to go looking for heroes, at least not among the”
― The Hemingses of Monticello
― The Hemingses of Monticello
“The working people cannot purchase with their wages the wealth which they have produced,”
― The Conquest of Bread
― The Conquest of Bread
“We simply find ourselves – as if trapped in a metaphysical maze – coming back century after century, though in a spiral of increasing sophistication and complexity, to the same half dozen basic answers worked out by the ancient Greek philosophers.”
― The Trial of Socrates
― The Trial of Socrates
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