“Walter White’s more remarkable achievement in print was the book Rope and Faggot, which distilled his firsthand accounts of more than forty lynchings. Passing for white, he witnessed the murderous rage, carnival atmosphere, and unfathomable barbarism of the mob. With… — Nicholas Johnson Copy Share Image
“Self-defense is a universal exception to the state’s monopoly on legitimate violence. State failure drives the self-defense doctrine through the imminence requirement. Private violence… — Nicholas Johnson Copy Share Image
All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? — Nicholas Johnson Copy Share Image
“By the 1780s, Florida was home to Spanish-speaking Africans, fugitive slaves from the colonies, and indigenous and migrated Indian tribes, including the Seminoles. Fugitive… — Nicholas Johnson Copy Share Image
“Following the July 1919 race riot in Washington, DC, Johnson investigated and offered this assessment of how and why peace was restored. “The Negroes… — Nicholas Johnson Copy Share Image
“Walter White’s more remarkable achievement in print was the book Rope and Faggot, which distilled his firsthand accounts of more than forty lynchings. Passing… — Nicholas Johnson Copy Share Image
“Backed by Klan-type organizations dubbed “Red Shirts” and “Rough Riders,” Democrats summoned thirty-two of the city’s prominent blacks and laid out their demands: All… — Nicholas Johnson Copy Share Image
Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work. — Nicholas Johnson Copy Share Image
A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter. — Nicholas Johnson Copy Share Image
It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive. — Nicholas Johnson Copy Share Image
The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000. — Nicholas Johnson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps as many as two hundred thousand black men were snared into the convict labor system on a variety of pretexts. One of the… — Nicholas Johnson Copy Share Image
“By 1870, roughly 284,000 blacks accounted for 12 percent of the population of sixteen Western states and territories. But Negroes actually show up as… — Nicholas Johnson Copy Share Image
