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That Attica had directly, albeit unwittingly, helped to fuel an anti-civil-rights and anti-rehabilitative ethos in the United States was soon clear...Any politician who wanted money for his or her district had learned that the way to get it was by expanding the local criminal justice apparatus and by making it more punitive. The tougher on law and order a district was, the more dollars would come its way.

‘Imagine the terror,’ Fink said, '...you don’t have to stretch your imaginations...You saw him break down.’ Perhaps worse than anything, ‘the torture that was inflicted upon Mr. Brosig…was not by the actions of law enforcement existing in places where barbarism is the law, but what happened here happened about fifty or so miles away, committed by people who are sworn to uphold the law and the constitution.’

One Attica prisoner had been cowering near the hostage circle, and when he didn’t lie down to the liking of a state trooper, he ‘was shot above the knee.’ Another prisoner, who had been shot twice, testified to finding himself in the midst of countless bodies on the ground, ‘like they had those slave ships…There was people packed on top of people.’

The fact that key slides had been removed from slide trays, that bullets had gone missing, and that entire swaths of film as well as radio transcriptions no longer existed, suggested that the protection of trooper shooters was being orchestrated from on high...to lean on morticians to contradict Edlund’s account of how the men had died.

...Edland...spoke of how he had been ‘isolated, tortured, [and put] under extreme pressure’ even though his findings had been independently verified and he had autopsied over five thousand bodies in his career... jurors had seen this man’s pain…the amount of pressure under which this man had been living simply because he had told what he had seen, with no motivation other than to state the truth.

Another witness said, after the terror he’d experienced at the hands of the troopers in D Yard, by ‘the time the attorney generals, or whoever it was, the BCI came to see me, I would have testified to my mama doing something.’

The McKay Commission’s narrative of events unflinchingly and graphically exposed the mistreatment of prisoners that had led to the rebellion, and made it equally clear that its bloody end was both avoidable and unconscionable...‘The decision to retake the prison was not a quixotic effort to rescue the hostages in the midst of 1,200 inmates; it was a decisive reassertion of the state of its sovereignty and power.’

Russian roulette was a frequent practice of the night guards and troopers; so was telling thirsty, exhausted men cowering on the floor—like Carlos Roche—to ‘drink the urine of correction officers.’ Officers spent the entire night of the 13th scraping the bars loudly with the butts of their guns, taunting, physically assaulting, and threatening to kill the men they had just rehoused.

...Blyden said... ‘Man, I am not trying to scare you,’ but no matter what they say and promise here at Attica, ‘you’re gonna still die'…As he tried to bed down that night, Champ felt some peace, though, knowing that ‘if there are any lives lost in here, and if a massacre takes place…in the final analysis the world will know that the animals were not in here, but outside running the system and the government.

In many ways their long history with prison authorities led them to expect betrayal and so, even as they waited for negotiations to recommence, the men also devoted considerable time that day to constructing barricades at various doors in the yard as well as on the catwalks above.

Ten minutes after the collapse of A Block gate at Times Square, the prison alarm whistle finally sounded. Until that point, most of the 116 correction officers and 78 civilian employees who were on shift at Attica had no clue that all hell had broken loose at the very epicenter of the prison.

The new faith is that the truth must lie not with a doctrine that take the maximisation of aggregate or average general welfare for its goal, but with a doctrine of basic human rights, protecting specific basic liberties and interests of individuals...

There are values other than freedom, such as charity, justice, self-realisation, and it is to obstruct, indeed subvert, the task of moral valuation and intelligent political action to subsume all of these indisputable goods under that single rubric, freedom. Surely, this is right: the good of freedom can best be served by seeing it sharply for what it is: the absence, or removal, of restraints of choice.

‘I have no idea.’ What he does know is this: A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN LISARH HAVE BEEN FALSELY IMPLICATED…THE PEOPLE IN THE ADMINISTRATION SAID THEY ARE UNDER POLITICAL PRESSURE TO TAKE ONE-SIDED ACTION…MUSLIMS WORK FOR THEM SO THEY WILL LISTEN TO MUSLIMS.

There is little doubt in our minds that much of what we have just heard is bullshit, and what journalist does not like the smell of bullshit if it can be shown to be just that?

The man with the most authority amongst them, the five-time chief, has outlined an alternative version of events that I’ll wager they’ve heard before. Because retellings have their uses. They serve as a reminder that individual recollections must give way to what can be asserted as the collective truth.

...if you generate a crowd of aggrieved people...in the tens of thousands, you better have something to say. If the best you can do is appeal to its higher sentiments, you won’t be standing on the dais for long. Does a crowd develop its own consciousness as it begins to sense its leadership’s inability to articulate what should be done? Who speaks for the crowd then, or does the crowd start to speak for itself?

Die Gallier dachten also, daß die Seele eines Toten in einem anderen Körper wiedergeboren würde. Für Caesar war dieser Glaube and die Wiedergeburt nicht sehr günstig. Denn dadurch hatten die Gallier ja überhaupt keine Angst vor dem Tod und stürzten sich voller Hingabe in den Kampf gegen die Römer.

Ammianus Marcellinus, ein Autor aus dem vierten Jahrhundert nach Christus, erzählt, daß keltische Frauen noch besser treten und schlagen könnten als Männer und daß es einer Gruppe Fremder nicht zu raten sei, es mit einem Kelten aufzunehmen, wenn dieser seine Ehefrau dabei habe.

His ability to catch the allegiances and the emotional tone of the authors he has written about, as well as his ability to meet the commentator’s first duty to the subtleties of their thought, has always meant that their personalities and ideas alike have remained intact and alive.

Happy for all her maternal feelings was the day on which Mrs. Bennet got rid of her two most deserving daughters.

I am only resolved to act in that manner which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

Caesar verstand es immer wieder, aus gewöhnlichen Männern rücksichtslose Kampfmaschinen zu machen, denen nichts entgegenzusetzen war…In den Asterix-Erzählungen sucht der Leser vergeblich diesen Typ des römischen Soldaten. Es gibt schon Zenturionen…wie dieser…aber in der Praxis des Kampfgeschehens ziehen die immer den kürzeren.

Detection could not be in your power, and suspicion certainly not in your inclination.

The Lucases are very artful people indeed, sister. They are all for what they can get. I am sorry to say it of them, but so it is. It makes me very nervous and poorly, to be thwarted so in my own family, and to have neighbors who think of themselves before anybody else.

Then death came for her. She suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage. Edith writes in her memoir: ‘She was never more herself that on the last morning of her life—the morning on April 24, 1947. Her spirit was as high, her grasp of reality as firm as always. And she had kept that warmth of heart, that youthful, fiery generosity which life so often burns out.’

To Will Owen Jones, editor of the Nebraska State Journal, she wrote words the wisdom of which any maturing writer will harken to: ‘As one grows older one cares less about clever writing and more about a simple and faithful representation. But to reach this, one must have gone through the period where one would die, so to speak, for the fine phrase; that is essential to learning one’s business.’

...her disobliging account of a production of Lohengrin [in] Pittsburgh...: ‘Frau Gadski who sings Elsa has a very powerful soprano voice and by some strange mischance was not afflicted with a cold. But dramatically she is totally incompetent and unsatisfactory. To begin with she is enormous in size. Her weight is simply preposterous…Why is it that all Elsas must be robust and matronly and weary to the eye?’

Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society; the greatest part of his life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and miserly father; and though he belonged to one of the universities, he had merely kept the necessary terms, without forming at it any useful acquaintance.

Versuch sich Anzupassen

Ich soll mich drein fügen
und nicht fragen
warum ich das soll
und ich soll nicht fragen
warum ich nicht fragen soll

Attempt to Conform

I must accept things
and must not ask
why I must
and must not ask
why I must not ask