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“In the American Jewish community, there is little willingness to face the fact that the Palestinian Arabs have suffered a monstrous historical injustice . . . Until this is recognized, discussion of the Middle East crisis cannot even begin.”

Littles Facts Faces Community Middle Crisis Historical Injustice East Discussion Willingness Middle East Palestinian Monstrous Jewish Community

Book:Middle East Illusions: Including Peace in the Middle East? : Reflections on Justice and Nationhood

Source: Middle East Illusions: Including Peace in the Middle East? : Reflections on Justice and Nationhood

“I learned that victims come in all image - some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I learned that the solutions come by both listening to the people impacted by the crisis and by learning from historical experiences in other places.”

People Violence Listening Losing Solutions Crisis Victim Historical Loved Ones Acts Of Violence Losing A Loved One

Author:Zainab Salbi

“For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.”

Long Important War Political Accounts Crisis Historical Narrative Confined Political Life Political History

Book:A history of the ancient world

Source: A history of the ancient world

“People in America get really angry at the Federal Reserve and at the "money system" in general during economic crises. The Fed draws hostility because of its power, its insulation from democratic accountability, its lack of transparency, and because of its historical and structural connections to finance.”

“The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.”

Done Humanity Challenges History Environment Crisis Historical Environmental Realization Ecology Human History Ecological Sustainable Living Environmental Crisis New Environment Ecological Crisis

Book:Myth, Consciousness, and Psychic Research

Source: Myth, Consciousness, and Psychic Research

“The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That is, historical capitalism is in crisis precisely because, in pursuing the endless accumulation of capital, it is beginning to approximate that state of being Adam Smith asserted was 'natural' to man but which has never historically existed. The 'propensity [of humanity] to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another' has entered into domains and zones previously untouched, and the pressure to expand commodification is relatively unchecked.”

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Author:Immanuel Wallerstein

“And the banks - hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created - are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.”

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Author:Dick Durbin

“The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order.”

World Order Keys Crisis Threat Historical Environmental International Disaster New World New World Order World Order Environmental Crisis

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in the repeated personal crises of the aging preadolescent; all are familiar images of American society. They are signs of private nightmares of incoherence and disorder in broken climaxes where technologies in pursuit of mastery create ever-worsening problems - private nightmares expanded to a social level.”

“You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into artistic crises, they keep my life interesting.”

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Author:Max Roach

“There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.”

Struggle Angel Crisis Historical Monkeys

Author:Terence McKenna