Author: historyiswhat

“Government implies governors and governed, a ruling and a subject class. No man is great enough or good enough to rule another.”

“This tendency to look down upon the workers of the ‘far-off’ lands is foolish, for we venture to remark that the United States is just as far off from Japan as Japan is from the United States.”

Over the past decade, Canada has been exporting billions of dollars worth of military equipment to countries that have been at war with Yemen

“Rest in Joy”

“… it is unfortunately true that colonisation and humanitarianism can never mix, and the only way the coloniser has ever established himself is by quickfire and ruthless wiping out, such as Andrew Jackson undertook.”

“… I sold my individuality, part of my life, my skill with arms; and also was expected to commit murder if asked to do so (Palestine Rebellion, 1936).”

“The people of Lebanon did not accept this ruthless display of power without active protests. There were demonstrations in the principal towns and in many of the villages.”

“The masses don’t want crumbs from the loaded tables of the rich, but what is their natural right. They should take it whenever they have an opportunity.”

“And the propertyless class — the wage-earners are compelled by competition to sell their labor themselves to the lowest bidder, or starve.”

“There was a clear atmosphere, a splendid dawn like an aurora of deliverance. We knew well though we died, Paris would rise.”