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“If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely to come away with a vague feeling of dissatisfaction. If you're willing to settle for first-rate writing and provocative meditations on memory, corruption and loss, they are all here in abundance.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Character Feelings Memories Loss Struggle Meditation Willing Rate Corruption Settling Abundance Vague Dissatisfaction Provocative Zimbabwe Specifics

Author:Jabari Asim

“The origin of the political relations between the United States and France is coeval with the first years of our independence. The memory of it is interwoven with that of our arduous struggle for national existence. Weakened as it has occasionally been since that time, it can by us never be forgotten, and we should hail with exultation the moment which should indicate a recollection equally friendly in spirit on the part of France.”

Source: John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.”

Men Facts Home Memories Struggle Rewards Retiring Defence Life Struggle

Author:J. G. Holland

“Memory only becomes interesting through its struggle with forgetfulness.”

Memories Interesting Struggle Forgetfulness

Author:Adrian Forty

“The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity.... The law gives me my seat. In the name of the law I ask for it. I regret that my personality overshadows the principles involved in this great struggle; but I would ask those who have touched my life, not knowing it, who have found for me vices which I do not remember in the memory of my life, I would ask them whether all can afford to cast the first stone ... then that, as best judges, they will vacate their own seats, having deprived my constituents of their right here to mine.”

“I can direct things but I can't write. My memory is going, so I struggle for words.”

Writing I Can Memories Struggle Direct

Author:Terry Jones

“I've heard people in the Middle East tell me that the most inspiring thing for them as people struggling against dictatorship in the Middle East is the memory of the civil rights movement.”

People Memories Struggle Rights Heard Middle Movement East Civil Rights Middle East Dictatorship Civil Rights Movement Most Inspiring

Author:Peter Beinart

“Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.”

Dies Memories Struggle Uprising

Author:Vijay Prashad

“Where there is a living memory of struggle, they have a living memory of the rebellion. Where there's no struggle afterward the rebellion is forgotten.”

Memories Struggle Forgotten Rebellion

Author:Vijay Prashad