“In that sense, Obama is America's first postmodern president. If his predecessors tended to see the world in terms of good and evil, Obama sees the world in terms of victims and victimizers - with the United States often in the role of victimizer. In that view, long favored by the academic left that shaped a young Barack Obama, American foreign policy is one long train of abuses, marked by casual aggression and eager imperiousness.” IfsWorldFirstsLongStatesAmericaYoungEvilLeftPresidentTermUnitedViewsRolesUnited StatesPolicyAbuseVictimTrainBarackGood And EvilAcademicForeign PolicyAggressionCasualNotablePredecessorsPostmodernAmerican Foreign Policy Author:Stephen F. Hayes
“I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried.” ChildrenLittlesStatesGovernmentFacesParentForgetDespairVictimAwfulNever ForgetBuriedFuneralAgonyColoradoJohn D RockefellerAwful Days Author:Ella Reeve Bloor
“Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your mother's womb is not enough to make you human. People who are full of hate and anger against their oppressors or who only see Us versus Them can make a rebellion but not a revolution. The oppressed internalize the values of the oppressor. Therefore, any group that achieves power, no matter how oppressed, is not going to act differently from their oppressors as long as they have not confronted the values that they have internalized and consciously adopted different values.” PeopleHumansLongDifferentMatterStatesEnoughMotherValuesHateUnitedUnited StatesGroupsAchieveRevolutionVictimOppressionRevolutionaryRebellionOppressedVersusAdoptedWombDroppingOppressorsDropping OutDifferent Values Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“...testifying for Dr. Privitera...To these 19 cancer victims, the enforcement of (California) Health and Safety Code Sect. 1701.1, the denial of them medical treatment, albeit unorthodox, albeit unapproved by a state agency, must surely take on a Kafka-esque, a nightmare quality. No demonstrated public anger, no compelling interest of the state warrants an Orwellian intrusion into the most private of zones of privacy.” StatesAgeInterestDarkQualitySafetyVictimCancerMedicalDenialCodeCaliforniaAgencyPrivacyZoneTreatmentNightmareCompellingDrsEnforcementDark AgesSectsWarrantsIntrusionMedical TreatmentUnorthodoxOrwellianHealth And SafetyTestifyingCancer Victim Author:Rose Bird
“Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries. In the United States, the subtle spell of opium has been broken by restrictive legislation; the grip of the rum demon has been loosened by the Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution, but the tobacco habit still maintains its strangle-hold and more than one hundred million victims of tobaccoism daily burn incense to the smoke god.” HumansHas BeensStillsStatesLastsScienceThreeUnitedMillionsUnited StatesProgressCenturyBrokenHabitHundredConstitutionVictimSmokePoisonDemonSubtleSpellsAmendmentsLegislationAlcoholismTobaccoProhibitionHandicapsOpiumHuman ProgressIncenseRumTrios Book:Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills, Source: Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,