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“Henry Kissinger said in 1968:

Word should be gotten to Nixon that,
if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem,
the word will go out to the nations of the world,
that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy,
but to be America's friend is fatal.”
― William F. Buckley Jr.

tags: misquoted

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“The world is a giant ashtray we put things into.”
― William F. Buckley Jr.

tags: april-1996, west-chester-university

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“We are all dying, just at different speeds.”
― Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light

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“VI. LOOKING BACKWARD

How the planters, having lost the war for slavery, sought to begin again where they left off in 1860, mere substituting for the individual ownership of slaves, a new state serfdom of black folk.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

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“Arms in the hands of the Negro aroused fear both North and South. Not that the Negroes could not and would not fight, for these same blacks, largely under their own officers, had beaten back Louisiana whites at Port Hudson and Milliken's Bend. But, it was the silent verdict of all America that Negroes must not be allowed to fight for themselves. They were, therefore, dissuaded from every attempt at self-protection or aggression by their friends as well as their enemies.”
― W E B Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America

tags: black, reconstruction, self-defense

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