Death of a Nation Quotes

“FDR did learn from both of them, and moreover, like Mussolini and Hitler, he had the economic catastrophe of the Great Depression to justify moving his country in a direction that the people would never ordinarily want to go.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party

“The point of this is not merely to teach ethnic pride or self-esteem. Nor is it, as usually advertised, a campaign to defeat “hate.” Rather, it is to teach Hispanics—along with blacks, Native Americans and Asian Americans—to each affirm their ethnic identity and, even more, to define it in resistance to a white identity or even a unified American identity.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party

“Pine Ridge reservation, White Face told me, is one of the largest reservations in the country, and the poorest. Like other reservations, it is run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), an agency of the federal government. While in theory the native Indians are separate nations, in reality they are, as the Supreme Court once termed them, “dependent nations”—dependent on the government through the BIA.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party

“Here we see how the plantation, which does not create employment for its inhabitants, nevertheless does provide stable employment to a whole class of academics, social workers and bureaucrats. The employment is stable because the plantation is permanent; there are no plans for it to ever be dismantled. The “war against poverty” is a perpetual fight in which poverty always wins because the game is rigged and the combatants are not fighting to win, only to hold the line.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party

“Mussolini was a Marxist—together with Antonio Gramsci, the most famous Marxist in Italy. Mussolini was “the strongman of the revolutionary Left” who, in the words of historian Zeev Sternhell, “never said a single word against socialism as a system of thought.”27 Together with a group of revolutionary socialists known as the Syndicalists, he created the first fascist party in the early 1900s and the first fascist state in 1922. Around the same time, fascist movements were started in England, in France, in Germany and elsewhere in Europe.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party

“In 1867–69, during the constitutional conventions, blacks and whites jointly participated in political deliberations for the first time in the nation’s history. During this “golden decade,” approximately two thousand blacks were elected to important political office in the South. There were two black senators, sixteen black Congressmen, and more than six hundred blacks in the state legislatures. In addition, nearly a thousand blacks held various local offices. Many of them were former slaves. Every single one of them was a Republican.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party

“Thus Lincoln believed he would best hold the border states, and thus serve the antislavery cause itself, by pretending that this was not a war fought over slavery. Yet of course Lincoln could have avoided the war and saved the union had he embraced the Crittenden proposal or simply adopted Douglas’ doctrine of popular sovereignty. The fact that he refused to do so proves that Lincoln was willing to go to war to prevent slavery from spreading into the territories.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party

“At the same time, progressives began to redefine fascism and Nazism in such a way that they could project these evils onto the right, so that future generations would be bamboozled into thinking that the Republicans, not the Democrats, the conservatives, not the progressives, were in bed with Mussolini and Hitler in the critical decades leading up to global war and Holocaust.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party

“Look at the way that Obama greatly increased government control not only over healthcare—every hospital, every doctor, every health insurance company—but also over the financial sector—every bank, every investment house—and increasingly over the energy, automobile and education sectors as well.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party

“Goldwater objected to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on libertarian grounds; he did not believe the federal government was constitutionally authorized to regulate discrimination in the private sector. Sadly, Goldwater’s principled stand was misunderstood by many African Americans, who saw Goldwater as a racist and his party, the GOP, as the party of racism.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party

“Let the sun be proud of its achievement.” He added, “It is evident that white and black ‘must fall or flourish together.’ In the light of this great truth, laws ought to be enacted, and institutions established—all distinctions, founded on complexion ought to be repealed . . . and every right, privilege, and immunity, now enjoyed by the white man, ought to be as freely granted to the man of color.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party

“The maxim, every man for himself,” he writes, “embraces the whole moral code of a free society.” The harsh competition of capitalism, Fitzhugh says, benefits the few and the strong while crushing the many and the weak. As a consequence of freedom, “the rich are continually growing richer and the poor poorer.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party

“This enforced subordination, according to the progressive black sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois, was the true meaning of slavery. “But there was . . . a real meaning to slavery different from that we may apply to the laborer today,” Du Bois wrote. “It was in part psychological, the enforced personal feeling of inferiority, the calling of another Master; the standing with hat in hand. It was the helplessness. It was the defenselessness of family life. It was the submergence below the arbitrary will of any sort of individual.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party

“This is not the profile of a man; it is the profile of a dog.” Duels required the presence of witnesses, and large numbers of people participated in duels as principals, seconds, adjudicators, physicians, timekeepers or general audience.20”
― Dinesh D'Souza, Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party

“Greenberg cites the example of a planter who was challenged to a duel because he told a fellow planter that he smelled bad. “When the man of honor is told that he smells,” Greenberg writes, “he does not draw a bath—he draws his pistol.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party

“Fascism is state-directed capitalism.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party

“In a free market, Fitzhugh notes, the interest of masters is opposed to that of the “wage slaves.” When the slaves lose, the masters gain. The masters are always contriving to pay their workers less—playing them off against each other—even though the workers are the ones who produce all the products. Free society is a “war of the rich with the poor, and the poor with one another.” In such society, Fitzhugh memorably observes, “virtue loses all her loveliness, because of her selfish aims.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party