“I'm developing a mild rash at the idea of "plugging" anything, because it's not how I roll.” Quote by Jim Goad
“When you're indiscriminate in allowing people to post, the loudest and emptiest voices invariably drown out everyone else.” PeopleVoicePostsAllowing Author:Jim Goad
“In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor that men do.” MenWritingYearsLongFoundIndustrySticksPublishingFervorToilingPublishing Industry Author:Jim Goad
“It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction but slavery itself, and there is a lesson to be drawn here about how the times influence the writing of history, something that we should never forget.” ShouldWritingDifferentForgetRightsInfluenceMovementLessonsSlaveryCivil RightsNever ForgetExaminationCivil Rights MovementReconstruction Author:Gerald Horne
“Germany had come late to feast at the table of colonialism and did not feel that the division of colonial spoils at that particular moment in time reflected its true strength and its true weight in the imperialist world.” WorldFeelsMomentsParticularLateWeightTablesGermanyDivisionColonialismSpoilMoments In TimeTrue Strength Author:Gerald Horne
“Africa, being the major target of colonial plunder, therefore becomes a major source of conflict.” SourceConflictMajorsTargetPlunder Author:Gerald Horne
“As long as colonialism was allowed to reign and fester in Africa, it was going to be a source of tension, if not war, as was evidenced by World War I itself, which, among other things, featured Germany on one side of the barricades and Britain, which had come earlier to the table of colonial plunder, on the other.” IfsWorldLongWarSidesSourceTablesWar Of The WorldsTensionGermanyBritainWorld War IColonialismReignPlunderBarricades Author:Gerald Horne
“In order to better charge Moscow with human rights violations, the United States had to bend with regard to the more excessive aspects of Jim Crow. It had to yield to the insistent cries on the ground here in this country.” HumansCountryStatesOrderUnitedUnited StatesRightsCryAspectRegardHuman RightsYieldViolationCrowMoscowJim Crow Author:Gerald Horne
“I once wrote that Black Americans are involved in an intriguing experiment to see if an oppressed minority can continue to march forward if there is not a strong and vibrant left-wing and radical movement. That's not an experiment I would recommend, although the story is still unfolding and we will see how it unfolds, but they are not the sort of conditions in which an oppressed minority should have to struggle.” IfsShouldStillsStoriesLeftStrongBlackStruggleConditionsMovementInvolvedShould HaveWingsExperimentsRadicalMinoritiesMarchOppressedUnfoldingIntriguingLeft Wing Author:Gerald Horne
“The Africans were oftentimes allied with the antagonist of the Republic. Now, you may want to step back and ask yourself why that might be. It may lead you to a reconsideration of the origins of the nation now known as the United States of America. As opposed to seeing it in the same vein as the French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution, you might see it in the same vein as the revolt against British rule in Rhodesia in 1965, and, if so, that might help to shed light on why conservatism is so deeply entrenched in this republic.” IfsWantMayStatesHelpingLightMightAmericaAsksNationsUnitedKnownStepsUnited StatesSeeingRevolutionBritishRepublicShedUnited States Of AmericaVeinsConservatismRevoltFrench RevolutionAntagonistHaitianReconsiderationBritish RuleRhodesiaHaitian Revolution Author:Gerald Horne
“Cuba was in some ways a de facto state of the United States before 1959, given its proximity and given its neocolonial status.” WayStatesGivenUnitedUnited StatesCubaProximity Author:Gerald Horne
