well i've been trying to get back in a writing groove, so i guess this is a good place to start...
part of my problem is that i feel like everything's been said before...but maybe i just have a natural propensity for plagiarism. i collect quotable quotes, & i often engage in subconscious plagiarism...
so on that note: i've been reading 'a people's history of the united states' by howard zinn for the 2nd time & i've found some great quotes...
...If there is no struggle there is no progress...The struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will...
--Frederick Douglass, 1857
...The Church...seeks to make complete idiots out of the mass and to make them forego the paradise on earth by promising a fictitious heaven...
--Anarchist manifesto (Pittsburgh, 1883)
...while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
--Eugene Debs, 1918
Verily, poor as we are in democracy how can we give of it to the world?
--Emma Goldman, 1917
part of my problem is that i feel like everything's been said before...but maybe i just have a natural propensity for plagiarism. i collect quotable quotes, & i often engage in subconscious plagiarism...
so on that note: i've been reading 'a people's history of the united states' by howard zinn for the 2nd time & i've found some great quotes...
...If there is no struggle there is no progress...The struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will...
--Frederick Douglass, 1857
...The Church...seeks to make complete idiots out of the mass and to make them forego the paradise on earth by promising a fictitious heaven...
--Anarchist manifesto (Pittsburgh, 1883)
...while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
--Eugene Debs, 1918
Verily, poor as we are in democracy how can we give of it to the world?
--Emma Goldman, 1917
I'm a newcomer here as well, and I've found your postings interesting... and using quotes as journal entries seemed to me a good idea so far!
Yours encourage to read Zinn's book.... I didn't know it...