“I have been using the art of photography to research the ways in which the pictorial strategies of the Nineteenth Century color the way in which the American landscape is apprehended by today's viewers.” WayHas BeensArtTodayCenturyColorPhotographyResearchStrategyPhotographerLandscapeViewersNineteenth CenturyPictorialAmerican Landscape Author:John Pfahl
“So long as our textbooks hide from us the roles that people of color have played in exploration, from at least 6000 BC to the twentieth century, they encourage us to look to Europe and its extensions as the seat of all knowledge and intelligence. So long as they say “discover,” they imply that whites are the only people who really matter. So long as they simply celebrate Columbus, rather than teach both sides of his exploit, they encourage us to identify with white Western exploitation rather than study it.” PeopleLooksLongMatterSidesWhiteRolesTeachStudyCenturyColorEuropeWesternCelebrateSeatsExplorationExploitationExtensionsBoth SidesTwentieth CenturyExploitsTextbooksColumbus Book:Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Source: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
“Autocratic leadership existed in Russia for many centuries, changing only its ideological colors and method of legitimization.” CenturyColorMethodRussiaIdeological Book:Putin's Russia Source: Putin's Russia
“One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch a century ago.” MenGivenAttentionCenturyColorAbsolutesCommandOne ManCoastMonarchsLiving Color Author:Walter Wriston
“Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have suffered at the hands of Europeans?... We and our civilization are burdened, really, with a great debt. We are not free to confer benefits on these men, or not, as we please; it is our duty. Anything we give them is not benevolence but atonement.” MenWorldGivingHandsCoursesCenturyColorDutyPleaseCivilizationBenefitsInjusticeDebtCrueltyBenevolenceAtonement Author:Albert Schweitzer
“The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.” RocksCenturyColorDelicatePaleWardrobe18th CenturyUnderwater Author:William Manchester
“The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to jail or prison - that is an absolutely astonishing statistic. And it ought to be terrorizing to not just to people of color, but to all of us.” PeopleThreeBlackBornJusticeCenturyColorBabyOughtPrisonMalesReportsJailAstonishingBlack MalesBaby Born Author:Bryan Stevenson