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In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. And as he elucidates the connection between America’s imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change...
Excerpts from Understanding Power
Poem by Gil Scott-Heron
Excerpts from The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Excerpts of writings and speeches by Malcolm X on Afro-American History.
First published in 1933, the thesis of Dr. Woodson's book is that African-Americans of his day were being culturally indoctrinated, rather than taught, in American schools. This conditioning, he claims, causes African-Americans to become dependent and to seek out inferior places in the greater society of which they are a part. He challenges his readers to become autodidacts and to "do for themselves", regardless of what they were taught: History shows that it does not ma...
1915 speech delivered by Carlos Montezuma in Lawrence, Kansas for the Society of American Indians Conference, which was later published in The American Indian Magazine (January-March 1916, Vol. 4, No. 1), and then reprinted in various newspapers. Montezuma's speech was also read during the first sessions of the Sixty-Fourth Congress in 1916, and included in the Congressional Record.
Pocket Library of Socialism, No.23, Jan. 15, 1901 Rev. Brown was principal of the Modern School
A People's History of the United States is a 1980 non-fiction book by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn. In the book, Zinn seeks to present an alternate interpretation of the history of the United States. According to the author, American history is to a large extent the exploitation of the majority by an elite minority.
1854 Essay by Lucretia Mott taken from Miriam Schneir's, "Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings," Vintage Books, 1972, pp.100-102.
A Great Difference between Red and White is a speech written by Sago-Yo-Watha (Red Jacket), Iroquois, 1805 and published in Daniel Drake's book "Lives of Celebrated American Indians" (Boston, Bradbury, Soden & Co. 1843), 283–87.
“Yet we did not fear them. We took them to be friends. They called us brothers. We believed them and gave them a larger seat ... they wanted more land; they wanted our country. Our eyes were opened, and our minds became uneasy.” “You have got our country, but are not satisfied; you want to force your religion upon us.” “How shall we know when to believe, being so often deceived by the white people?”
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century in the United...
More than any other black leader, H. Rap Brown (Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin), chairman of the radical Black Power organization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), came to symbolize the ideology of black revolution. This autobiography—which was first published in 1969, went through seven printings and has long been unavailable—chronicles the making of a revolutionary. It is much more than a personal history, however; it is a call to arms, an urgent message t...
James Boggs, born in Marion Junction, Alabama in 1919, never dreamed of becoming President or a locomotive engineer. He grew up in a world where the white folks are gentlemen by day and Ku Klux Klanners at night. Marion Junction is in Dallas County where as late as 1963, although African-Americans made up over 57 percent of the total county population of 57,000, only 130 were registered voters. After graduating from Dunbar High School in Bessemer, Alabama, in 1937, Boggs...
A People's History of the United States is a 1980 non-fiction book by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn. In the book, Zinn seeks to present an alternate interpretation of the history of the United States. According to the author, American history is to a large extent the exploitation of the majority by an elite minority. (Wikipedia)
Popular introduction to objective ethics.
Гомо-сапиенс — рациональное животное озабоченное выживанием. Ему нужны здоровье и счастье. Он читает книги о том, как быстро добиться успеха и разбогатеть. Или вообще не читает. Человек — творец, он стремится стать лучше и сделать лучше окружающий мир. Ему нужны идеалы, он ищет ответы на вечные вопросы. Эта книга для людей, а точнее для подрастающего поколения. Ее автор — создатель «обьективной этики», моральной системы предлагающей наиболее правдоподобное обьяснение ми...
ആരും തൊടാത്ത, നമുക്കിടയില നിസ്സാരമെന്നു തോന്നിക്കുന്ന ശൂന്യസ്ഥലങ്ങളെ സ്പര്ശിടച്ചുകൊണ്ടാണ് ഈ എഴുത്തുകാരന്റെ ഓരോ കഥകളും കടന്നുപോകുന്നത്. അങ്ങേയറ്റം ചെറുതും ലോലവുമായ വിഷയങ്ങള് അത്രയുംതന്നെ ലളിതമായ ഭാഷയില് അവതരിപ്പിക്കുക എന്നത് ആധുനികതയുടെ കാലത്ത് തികച്ചും അപൂർവമായിരിക്കുന്നു
൧൨. മല യാളത്തില ഇപ്പോഴത്തെ എഴുത്ത്/സിനിമാ സൃഷ്ടികളെപ്പറ്റി ? ഏത് തരത്തലുള്ള സൃഷ്ടികളാണ് വേണ്ടത് എന്നത് കാലഘട്ടം ആവശ്യപ്പെടുന്ന ഒന്നാണ്. അത്തരത്തിലുള്ള സൃഷ്ടികൾ ഉണ്ടാകുകയും ചെയ്യുന്നു.
Updated January 2018. The first part of his book contains a free step-by-step guide, with links to videos if needed, showing how to use this simple, easy to use therapy for self use at home. Nothing is taken, just bags of different materials such as batteries, oils and vitamins are placed on a person. It's effective and safe having been developed over 25 years and it works on many conditions including illness, pain, injury and accident. It's basically an energy therapy w...
Genes in humans have come from different sources such as viruses, bacteria, moulds, molluscs and insects and even though they form part of human genetics, and look no different from genes without this energy, they contain the energy of where they originally developed. This non human energy then produces by-products in and from the genes which can give rise to illness. When a gene comes from a virus, bacteria, molluscs such as snails and slugs that secrete, insects tha...
序言 国内著名段子手夜伤鹰所著,写好段子需要扎实的文字功底,此外还需要各种社会经验,对当下的语言语境进行研究,对时事热门话题要涉猎,还得精通文史哲才能写好段子,因此写好段子需要专业的人来完成,本作品主要依据网络热门小说《凡人修仙》传进行段子创作,为广大读者提供专业的段子素材和养成秘籍。
The book comprises of 25 poems, in form of rhyme, brevity and freestyle. As the title says, the poems in this book aims to make reader feel a sight of hope even in the darkest realms and problems in the life. When you feel tired, depressed, abandoned, frozen, this book can make you feel a plight of hope and refreshment from your tired daily-life. Read each poem, understand it's core meaning and it'll make you feel better as, expressions understand the expressions. This i...
"The stabs inside the heart's labs prove to be the best cabs to fab future"