When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I was once all by myself in a house on Fire Island. Where I compared the original cast recordings of two different… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
In May 2013, my lawyer Dmitry Dinze filed a complaint about the conditions at PC-14 with the prosecutor's office. The deputy head… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
Most guys believe that they're supposed to know how to fix things. This is a responsibility that guys have historically taken upon… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
“My feeling is, the Pilgrims were asked to leave England. England was never funner than when the Pilgrims split, right? The people… — Greg Proops Copy Share Image
England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
Lysley Tenorio is a writer of sly wit and lively invention—these are stories bursting with wonders (from monster movies and leper colonies,… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry… — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
Since I stayed in a colony where either one was an engineer or a scientist, everybody thought I would be a scientist.… — Shreya Ghoshal Copy Share Image
The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Semilla’s Phlegm-O-Matic promptly made an observation. ‘Wow Semilla look at that shuttle.’ ‘Keep your voice down Raymond we’re in danger,’ Semilla hissed.… — A.R. Merrydew Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time studying our Founders and people like Samuel Adams and the original Tea Party. What Adams and… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Being Peruvian means to come from the farthest place possible to get to Europe. Peru is the land of the Incas. It… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not… — Edmund Morgan Copy Share Image
The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
How long are women to remain a wholly unrepresented body of the people? This is a question that has of late been… — Mary Ann Muller Copy Share Image
“...the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow.… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
If you go to former Yugoslav states, the Balkan states, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, the situation is dire. Not to mention Bosnia,… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
My dad's side of the family ... they're a real bizarre bunch, going back to the original colonies. That side's got a… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“Even with the Brotherhood as support, going to the colony was a suicide mission—and she was willing to bet there were a… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The young nobles, of whom there were many, were volunteers, who had paid their own expenses in expectation of a golden harvest,… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
We are less justified in saying that the thinking life of humanity is a miraculous perfectioning of animal and physical life than… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Sometime, it will be found that people can be changed only by changing their surroundings. It is alleged that, at least ninety-five… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
Every time a colony wants independence, the questions on the agenda are: a) how do you get the imperialists out, and b)… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Colinialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. It contents itself with bringing to light the natrual resources, which it extracts,… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“But what would cause Yankeedom eventually to be so loathed by the other nations was its desire—indeed, its mission—to impose its ways… — Colin Woodard Copy Share Image
