“Conservatives or better, pro-corporate apologists hijacked the vocabulary of Jeffersonian liberalism and turned words like "progress," "opportunity," and "individualism" into tools for making the plunder of America sound like divine right. This "degenerate and unlovely age," as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today.” MindInspirationAgeTodayAmericaOpportunitySoundBrainProgressDivineToolsCorporateLiberalismHistorianIndividualismVocabularyGovernanceDegeneratesPlunderAmerica TodayDivine Right Author:Bill Moyers
“Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone, North America was able within less than a century to equal, and even surpass, the civilization of Europe.” InspirationAbleAmericaSpiritLibertyCenturyCivilizationEqualEuropeProductivityMarvelousMagicianNorth America Author:Mikhail Bakunin
“In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin America, yes, But that's not all that different in inspiration from that of America, or of Europe. One must go further. You don't even have to go too far in terms of geography - you can start with the Native Americans and listen to their poetry.” WorldLittlesDifferentInspirationAmericaLiteratureTermEuropeNativeLatinNative AmericanGeographyLatin AmericaLittle Knowledge Book:There Was a Country: A Memoir Source: There Was a Country: A Memoir