“The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies.” AmericaBeliefClassHundredMiseryCommittedProportionAbortionCustomsPregnancyWorking ClassSeventeen Author:Emma Goldman
“It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency.” ShouldYearsMayCountryUseGovernmentMightAgeAmericaEnjoyInterestingMilitaryPositionArmsCitizensBasesPropertyProtectionPrimariesOfficialsProportionExceptionUniformsAccustomedEmergenciesVery InterestingDefenceMilitiaFree GovernmentFounding Fathers GunShort Notice Author:George Washington
“The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of global conversation.” AmericaLanguageInfluenceInternetConversationComputerProportionOverwhelmingChatter Book:The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives Source: The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
“I find focusing clearly on the problem is the first step to seeing a solution. The problem is (a) the insane amount of time spent raising money from (b) a freakishly tiny proportion of America. Basically .05% are the "relevant funders" of campaigns, meaning candidates can't help but be overly sensitive to the views of that tiny fraction relative to the rest of us. IF that's the problem, THEN the solution is to spread the funders out: to increase the range of us who are the relevant funders of elections, through schemes like vouchers or coupons given to every voter.” IfsFirstsHelpingProblemAmericaGivenViewsStepsSeeingAmountSolutionsIncreaseElectionSpreadTinyCampaignsInsaneRangeSensitiveCandidatesProportionVotersRelativeRelevantFirst StepsSchemesFractionsTime SpentRaising MoneyVouchers Author:Lawrence Lessig
“[On New York City:] Were all America like this fair city, and all, no, only a small proportion of its population like the friends we left there, I should say that the land was the fairest in the world.” WorldShouldAmericaLeftCitiesLandNew YorkFairsPopulationProportionNew York City Book:Domestic Manners of the Americans Source: Domestic Manners of the Americans
“I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.” LongAmericaRememberCertainTurnsEventsKingsProportionTragicLutherBobby Kennedy Author:Richard Schiff