Beka’s Reviews > A People's History of the United States: Highlights from the Twentieth Century > Status Update

"I wonder now how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world - at least in our minds - and thought of all children, everywhere, as our own.

Then we could never drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Or Napalm on Vietnam. Or, indeed, wage war on anywhere, because wars - especially in our time - are always wars against children."

"In 1990, the average pay of the CEOs of the 500 largest corporations was 84 times that of the average worker.

By 1999, it was 475 times the average worker's pay."

(Regarding the 1960s and 70s)
"Never in American history had more movements for change been concentrated in so short a span of years.
But the system, in the course of two centuries, had learned a good deal about the control of people. In the mid-70s, it went to work."

"Traditional education became to be reexamined; the schools had taught whole generations the value of patriotism, of obeying authority, + had perpetuated ignorance -even contempt- for people of other nations, races, Native Americans, women."