“NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.” UsedSituationDangerousHorseTrojansTrojan HorseColonial Times Author:Arundhati Roy
“What I'm slowly realizing is that I believe that most of us felt that we could relax a little bit after November 2, 2008, because of the progress and the spirit that it took to get Barack Obama in The White House. And what we didn't realize, is that was really the beginning. That was really the beginning of the struggle and not the end of a struggle, to come from colonial times through slavery, through the Jim Crowe Laws, through the civil rights period to The White House as, like a point A/point B journey. Point B of course being the end.” BelieveLittlesEndsLawSpiritCoursesHouseI BelieveFeltBitsRealizingWhiteStruggleRightsProgressJourneyPeriodsLittle BitSlaveryCivil RightsBarackRelaxWhite HouseNovemberJim CrowColonial Times Author:Questlove
“The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.” CommunityLandSpecialProsperityParliamentMassachusettsColonial Times Author:John Buchanan Robinson
“The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going back to colonial times, and in English history from Tudor times.” KnowsTwoPastCenturyHistoricalAmerican HistoryUnprecedentedRatiosEnglish HistoryTudorsColonial Times Author:Gertrude Himmelfarb
“I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.” ThinkingYearsValuesFallNextFiveSeriousTenSixIncreaseSevenApplesFedsInflationSeven YearsCropsMonetaryProspectsPresent TimeBumperColonial Times Author:Arthur Laffer
“For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks overnight was nothing less than fair game for everybody to nail. Men or women, anybody bent over had no way of knowing who was doing the ram job, and this was the real reason you never wanted to end up here unless you had a family member or a friend who'd stand with you the whole time. To protect you. To watch your ass, for real.” MenWayPersonsRealEndsReasonWholeWantedJobsGamesLeftClassWatchesTeachKnowingProtectMembersFairsAssNailsBentFamily MembersProtect YouRamsFair GameHistory ClassColonial Times Book:Choke: A Novel Source: Choke: A Novel