“The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or bolshevik - is by its very nature conservative, static, intolerant of change and opposed to it.” StatesCharacterGovernmentFormColorAbsolutesConservativeRepublicNaziMonarchyFascistsStaticBolsheviksConstitutional Monarchy Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader
“It almost always happens that true, but exaggerated, coloring is more agreeable than absolute coloring.” HappensColorAbsolutesColourExaggerated Author:Michel Eugene Chevreul
“The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a water-color is inferior to an oil, or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. [emphasis added] Let us rather accept joyously and with gratitude everything through which the spirit of man seeks to an ever fuller and more intense self-realization.” IfsThinkingMenNeedsImportantSelfSeemsSpiritOrderWaterExistenceAcceptingColorGratitudeAbsolutesPhotographOilDrawingIntenseSelf RealizationMediumsRealizationUselessComparisonDespiseJustificationInferiorsIrrelevantEmphasisImpotenceEtching Author:Paul Strand
“It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society's approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.” PeopleMenMayPersonsEnoughPoorPowerImpossibleColorRacismPrejudiceAbsolutesExtremesRacistSexismApprovalLegislationPoor PeopleImpossibilityHatefulSexuallySexistAbusiveThis Society Book:Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma Source: Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma
“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
“Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, lipstick red, and the kiddies' playsuit. These are four simple words which must be whispered: color photography is vulgar.” WayFilmSimpleFourSkyColorPhotographyRedAbsolutesBlueGreenVulgarLipstickBlue SkySimple WordsFoliageColor Photography Author:Walker Evans
“I want to drink life to the dregs, to enlarge myself to the absolute limits of my being - and to strive for a society in which everyone -regardless of race, creed, color and especially religious conviction - has the same exhilarating raison d'être, and the same opportunity to fulfill it.” WantOpportunityReligiousRaceColorDrinkLimitsAbsolutesStriveConvictionCreedsExhilaratingDregs Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair