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"I'm moving through this slowly, but it seems like a really important and thorough analysis. The examples of formalized inhumanity are harrowing, but it seems like a useful tool for future prison reform and prison abolition movement planners. It also seems extra urgent because I think we thoughtlessly tend to treat mass incarceration as the result of a single root cause, which limits our ability to fight it." — Sep 16, 2015 10:27AM
"I'm moving through this slowly, but it seems like a really important and thorough analysis. The examples of formalized inhumanity are harrowing, but it seems like a useful tool for future prison reform and prison abolition movement planners. It also seems extra urgent because I think we thoughtlessly tend to treat mass incarceration as the result of a single root cause, which limits our ability to fight it." — Sep 16, 2015 10:27AM
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"Makes a John Wayne movie look like Chomsky. They clearly teach fantastic figure drawing and drafting at the Joe Kubert School, but the Political History department must be a ghost town." — Feb 23, 2015 07:44AM
"Makes a John Wayne movie look like Chomsky. They clearly teach fantastic figure drawing and drafting at the Joe Kubert School, but the Political History department must be a ghost town." — Feb 23, 2015 07:44AM
“I was situated at that moment in the turning of the northern year, when the end of winter and the start of spring overlap like shingles on a roof and the natural world seems doubled in thickness and density. A slight shift in the direction of the wind cools the air a single degree, and suddenly a puddle of standing water is covered with a skin of ice that, seconds later, as the wind parts the clouds and opens the sky, melts in the sunlight. At this moment, all is change. Transformation seems permanent. I was trembling with a type of excitement that I had never felt before, a powerful mixture of anticipation and regret, as if I somehow knew that eternal gain and irretrievable loss were about to be parceled out equally—as if the idea of justice were about to be made a material thing.”
― Cloudsplitter
― Cloudsplitter
“If we had learned anything over the last decade, it was that there was no other way to defeat slavery, except with a willingness to die for it. We had learned what the Negroes long knew. And thus we merely did what the Negroes themselves had done over and over in the past—in Haiti, in the mountains of Jamaica, and in the swamps of Virginia—but could not do out there on the plains of Kansas. We did what we wanted the Negroes to do in Kansas. By slaying those five pro-slavers on the Pottawatomie that night, we placed hundreds, thousands, of other white men in the same position that we along amongst the whites had held for years: for now every white man in Kansas, anti-slaver and pro-slaver alike, had to be ready to die for his cause.”
― Cloudsplitter
― Cloudsplitter
“The anonymous arsonists of Macon, GA, during the war years managed, at least, to burn down some of their oppressors' buildings. And this sort of action, a kind of attrition of the will to fight, is one of the guerillas' first tasks.”
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“Her family members and their friends and associates were, for the most part, rigorous Unitarians and well-known Transcendentalists. But for all their liberalism in religion, in terms of their public and private behavior they were still old-fashioned, upright Puritans. 'In other words, they are good people,' she said. 'Morally upright.' Their generation had abandoned the Calvinist theology in their youth, but had kept the morality. She, on the other hand, having been encouraged by her elders since her nursery days to forsake the old Puritan forms of religion, had retained none of the Puritans' moral uprightness and rigor. She was a sinner, she said. A sinner without the comfort of prayer and with no possibility of redemption.”
― Cloudsplitter
― Cloudsplitter
“Great generals generate legions of naïve fans.”
― They Should Have Been Hanged: War Nerd Essays on the U.S. Civil War
― They Should Have Been Hanged: War Nerd Essays on the U.S. Civil War
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