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“There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black people in the South don't want an education, they don't want to vote, they're simple people, they don't want this, they don't want that.”

People Want Black Simple Century Vote South Resistance Narrative Black People Twentieth Century

Author:Bill Ayers

“What's interesting about young black American artists within the twentieth century, and increasingly within the twenty-first as well, is that there's this expectation of a political corrective that demands that the artist fixes the ills of the world.”

World Firsts Wells Young Political Artist Black Interesting Century Demand Expectations Twenties Twentieth Century

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“Never mind that from the 1600s until the late twentieth century the population the United States was 85% white, 12% black, and there have been changes demographically in the United States since the days of its founding. So they're trying to tell you that the United States' greatness happened because of diversity. Well, go back and look at the days the country was founded, and they do. When they do that, they see how racist and bigoted this country was. they see the seeds for bigotry and racism and discrimination were sown at the founding, is how it's now taught.”

“The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.”

Years Government Century Taxes Years Ago Claims Experiments Income Socialist Twentieth Century Income Tax Tariffs

Author:Alan Keyes

“Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they shared not only linguistic meanings but also an experience and history. Those communities have progressively split in the twentieth century, and grown more heterogeneous, and writers emerging from minority communities have found themselves addressing audiences closer to their experience and history - a phenomenon derided by conservative white men as identity politics and multiculturalism in the arts.”

“Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.”

Made Literature Century Brilliant Comic Novelists Twentieth Century Sparkle English Literature Trios

Author:Russell Baker

“We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.”

World Music Generations Ships Pet New World Sixty Twentieth Century Nests Crow New World Order World Order Our Generation Nwo Greatest Beatles

Author:John Lennon

“Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.”

President Century Twentieth Century

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.”

Literature Century Events Horror Size Twentieth Century Reverberation

Author:Norman Mailer

“The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.”

Art Business Century Architecture Advertising Ads Caves Twentieth Century

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.”

Life Firsts Century First Time Jumping Twentieth Century Parachutes

Book:PEOPLE AND PLACES

Source: PEOPLE AND PLACES

“One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.”

Believe Humans Has Beens Said Truth Human Beings Sin Levels Century Truth Is Believe In God Peculiar Twentieth Century High Level Credulity

Book:Muggeridge through the microphone: B.B.C. radio and television

Source: Muggeridge through the microphone: B.B.C. radio and television

“Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.”

Known Century Historical Fascism Twentieth Century Fascists

Author:Benito Mussolini

“Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.”

People Facts Evil Causes Perfect Century Perfection Unhappiness Conformity Conform Personal Life Twentieth Century Monstrous Utopian Perfect Society

Author:Dennis Prager

“On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.”

Practice Century Policy New York Grew Grew Up Bases Structure Presses University Financial London Foreign Policy Twentieth Century

Author:Carroll Quigley

“Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.”

Humans Seems Human Beings Doubt Conditions Century Twentieth Century

Author:Salman Rushdie

“All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.”

“Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.”

Art Ideas Century Changed Theory Versions Abstraction Twentieth Century Relativity Theories Of Relativity

Author:Jerry Saltz

“It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.”

World Kind Art Influence Modern Century Twentieth Century Shattered Cezanne Giotto

Author:Jerry Saltz

“The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.”

Half Century Twentieth Century

Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.”

Doe Science Literature Century Twentieth Century Nineteenth Century

Book:Wars I have seen

Source: Wars I have seen

“The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations–great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.”

Whole Political Politics Nations United Century Vote Weight Bases United Nations Twentieth Century Small Nations

Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.”

Men Humans Running America President Race Century Understood Human Race Usa Twentieth Century Monument Gonzo

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.”

Problem Lines Century Color Racism Social Justice Twentieth Century Racism In America Black Racism Race And Color

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.”

Lasts Modern Century Masters Ten Majors Died Accomplishment Survivor Episodes Oscars Twentieth Century Astonishing December Utopian

Author:Martin Filler

“By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.”

Century Late Machines Our Time Organisms Twentieth Century Hybrid Chimera Cyborg

Author:Donna J. Haraway

“If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness.”

Ifs Might Next Interesting Century Notion Quarters Twentieth Century Godliness Cleanliness

Book:Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

“and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were somewhere else.”

People Ifs Way Would Be Community Century Disease Towns Characteristics Suspicion Somewhere Else Twentieth Century

Author:Wendell Berry

“It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more suited to urban life at the end of the twentieth century...He creates himself each day. He sees himself as the lord of misrule and the world as a theatre of the absurd.”

World Humans Kind May Ends Lord Century Perception Theatre Brilliant Absurd Each Day Sanity Urban Twentieth Century Modification Urban Life

Author:Grant Morrison

“In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt addict her to heroin, turn her out as a prostitute, confiscate her earnings, beat her for pleasure, hack her to pieces, and escape justice by claiming that society's intolerance for bad-tempered, evil-minded trolls had driven him temporarily insane.”

Real Lasts Turns Evil Justice Pleasure Doubt Pieces Century Beats Daughter Driven Decades Real Life Insane Queens No Doubt Intolerance Earning Addict Twentieth Century Heroin Hacks Troll

Author:Dean Koontz

“My own feeling about JJ, without knowing anything about him, was that he might have been a gay person, because he had long hair and spoke American. A lot of Americans are gay people, aren’t they? I know they didn’t invent gayness, because they say that was the Greeks. But they helped bring it back into fashion. Being gay was a bit like the Olympics: it disappeared in ancient times, and then they brought it back in the twentieth century. Anyway, I didn’t know anything about gays, so I just presumed they were all unhappy and wanted to kill themselves.”

“he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.”

Way Courses Century Figures Tragedy Absurd Helpless Twentieth Century Indecisive Mesmerized

Book:THE SHINING

Source: THE SHINING

“The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail excessive corporate power.”

Firsts States Struggle Doubt Century Twenties Corporate No Doubt Twentieth Century Fast Food Nation

Book:Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Source: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

“Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.”

People Mind Firsts Kind Use Government Causes Bits Century Nationalism Genocide Flags Shrinks Wraps Twentieth Century Shrouds

Book:War Talk

Source: War Talk

“The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We realize how suffocatingly humane we've become, dedicated to moderation and the middle way. The suburbanization of the soul has overrun our planet like the plague.”

Source: Super-Cannes: A Novel

“War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.”

War Happens Nations Century Horrible Twentieth Century Hideous Civilised

Book:Rilla of Ingleside

Source: Rilla of Ingleside

“It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that "past" which "ought not to be stirred up.”

Past Failing Century Ought Twentieth Century Atrocities Unthinkable

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000, they prayed, "Please God, don't let me look old." Sexiness was equated with youth, and youth ruled. The most widespread age-related disease was not senility but juvenility.”

People Years Looks Age America Poor Century Youth Please Disease Late Let Me Related Old People Twentieth Century Sexiness Senility

Book:Hooking Up

Source: Hooking Up

“the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.”

Century Late Eras Twentieth Century Pharmaceutical

Book:Deadeye Dick

Source: Deadeye Dick

“Oh, ma petite, you are growing gargantuan." I looked at him and it was not a friendly look. "Never tease a woman about her weight, Jean-Claude. At least not an American twentieth-century one." He Spread his hands wide. "My deepest apologies." "When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect.”

Trying Looks Hands Growing Effects Century Weight Spread Wide Ruins Friendly Apology Apologizing Twentieth Century Tease Petite

Book:Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

Source: Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

“How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don't you see, everybody hates God now. It's not that God is dead in the twentieth century. It's that everybody hates Him! At least I think so.”

Thinking World Hate Century Twentieth Century Hate Him God Is Dead Hate God

Book:Memnoch the Devil

Source: Memnoch the Devil

“Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.”

Should Art Today Christian Century Twentieth Century Christian Art

Book:Art & the Bible: Two Essays

Source: Art & the Bible: Two Essays

“Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.”

Thinking Knows Jobs Mother Successful Century Emotional Twentieth Century Teresa

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: "O God, make me a normal twentieth-century girl!" Thanks to our labors, this will mean increasingly: "Make me a minx, a moron, and a parasite.”

Humans Mean Said Young Girl Prayer Century Normal Female Labor Thanks Twentieth Century Moron Parasites Minx

Book:The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast

Source: The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast

“Science, the largest religion of the twentieth century, had become tarnished by images of exploding space shuttles, crack babies, and a generation of complacent Americans who allowed the television to raise their children. People were looking for something - I think they just didn't know what. And even though they were once again starting to open their eyes to the world of magic and the arcane that had been with them all the while, they still thought I must be some kind of joke.”

Source: The Dresden Files Collection 1-6

“In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.”

World Believe Challenges Moral Struggle Century Battle Slavery Gender Around The World Twentieth Century Totalitarianism Gender Equality Nineteenth Century Paramount

Book:Half the Sky

Source: Half the Sky

“The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.”

Real Passion Century Twentieth Century Servitude

Author:Albert Camus

“I don’t mind the disapproving ones so much. It’s the tolerant ones I can’t stand, the ones who smile at Rose, who speak to her ever so slowly and gently. They don’t realize how very intelligent Rose really is. They’re just terrifically pleased with themselves. Look at me! they all but shout. See how broad-minded I am! How wonderfully progressive, how fantastically twentieth century!”

Mind Looks I Can Speak Realizing Century Intelligent Rose Progressive Broads Look At Me Twentieth Century Disapproving

Book:Chime

Source: Chime

“The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of the inner order of the soul, the restoration of the ethical understanding, and the religious sanction upon which any life worth living is founded. This is conservatism at its highest.”

Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

“I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.”

Ifs Firsts Two Wonder Steps Century Abyss Twentieth Century Statesmen

Book:Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel

Source: Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel

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