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This is what they did with the march in Washington. They joined it... became part of it, took it over. And as they took it over, it lost its militancy. It ceased to be angry, it ceased to be hot, it ceased to be uncompromising. Why, it even ceased to be a march: Malcom X, 1963

Encontró su libreta y empezó a escribir furiosamente, antes de que el resto del sueño se perdiera para siempre.

Quietly, behind the headlines in battles and bombings, American diplomats and businessmen worked hard to make sure that when the war ended, American power would be second to none in the world

Enough help had been given to enough people to make Roosevelt a hero to millions, but the same system that had brought depression and crisis -the system of waste, of inequality, of concern for profit over human need- remained.

La historia solo rescata retazos de la verdad, de cualquier manera

Our democracy es but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee: Hellen Keller, 1911

... the purpose of Taylorism was to make workers interchangeable, able to do the simple tasks that the new division of labor required -like standard parts divested of individuality and humanity, bought and sold as commodities

El hereje nace del santo, el odio del amor.

But the purpose of the state was to settle upper-class disputes peacefully, control lower-class rebellion, and adopt policies that would further the long-range stability of the system.

The immigrants from Ireland, fleeing starvation there when the potato crop failed, were coming to America now, packed into old sailing ships. The stories of these ships differ only in detail from the accounts of the ships that earlier brought black slaves and later German, Italian Russian immigrants

Lincoln got the praise for freeing us, but did he do it? He gave us freedom without giving us any chance to live to ourselves and we still had to depend on the southern white man... (Thomas Hall, Ex-slave)

Sentémonos aquí hasta que acabe el mundo

... Our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions (John O'Sullivan, Democratic Review, summer 1845

Jefferson's talk of "agriculture... manufactures... civilization " is crucial. Indian removal was necessary for the opening of the vast American lands to agriculture, to commerce, to markets, to money, to the development of the modern capitalist economy

Earlier societies-In America and elsewhere- in which property was held in common and families were extensive and complicated, with aunts and uncles and grandmothers and grandfathers all living together, seemed to treat women more as equals than did the white societies that later overran them, bringing "civilization" and private property

... recordándonos que las cosas que buscamos muchas veces son ociosas o confusas, ajenas a la ejecución impecable de una tarea. (Epílogo, Roberto Culebro)

What did the Revolution mean to Native Americans, the Indians? They have been ignored by the fine words of the Declaration, had not been considered equal, certainly not in choosing those who would govern the American territories in which they lived, nor in being able to pursue happiness as they had pursued it for centuries before the white Europeans arrived.

Nos reinventamos cuando el mundo inventa nuevas maneras de avanzar y las de antes se ponen en desuso.

The country therefore was not "born free" but born slave and free, servant and master, tenant and landlord, poor and rich

The servants who joined Bacon's Rebellion were part of a large underclass of miserably poor whites who came to the North American colonies from European cities whose governments were anxious to be rid of them.

So, Columbus and his successors were not coming into an empty wilderness, but into a world which in some places was as densely populated as Europe itself, where the culture was complex...

They drew three lessons from the Pequot War: (1) that the Englishmen's most solemn pledge would be broken whenever obligation conflicted with advantage; (2) that the English way of war had no limit of scruple or mercy...