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More is remembered almost solely on account of his Utopia (1518).
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Commençons par énoncer avec clarté et brièveté les raisons qui nous font aimer aujourd'hui encore, aujourd'hui surtout, Érasme de Rotterdam, ce grand oublié : il a été en effet, de tous les écrivains et auteurs occidentaux, le premier Européen conscient, le premier « combattant pacifiste », le défenseur le plus éloquent de l'idéal humanitaire, soci
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Once in office, and freed from Southern obstructionism after the attack on Fort Sumter, Lincoln and his Republican majority unleashed a blitz of prodevelopment legislation almost without parallel in American history—a “second American Revolution,” in the words of historians Charles and Mary Beard. The Republican achievement has been obscured by the
... See moreCharles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
In his opening address at the 1945 war-crimes trials at Nuremberg, U.S. Supreme Court justice Robert Jackson accused Nazi leaders of assaulting “all those dignities and freedoms that we hold [as] natural and inalienable rights in every human being.” The horrific negation of those rights — by the agents of totalitarianism — threatened the fabric o
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If Perkins, the Progressive turned New Dealer, spent her life addressing problems left behind by Greeley’s Civil War generation—corporate power, exploited labor, political corruption, poverty—Rustin spent his battling injustices that the New Deal generation didn’t address: racism, segregation, and the threat of militarism to world peace. No one in
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the end. The next day, two nationalists in New York, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola, made their way down to Washington, D.C. They were seeking Harry Truman, who was living not at the White House (it was being renovated), but at the nearby Blair House. They wore suits, and they carried guns. Their idea was simple: shoot their way into Blair Ho
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JOHN LOCKE (1632-1704) is the apostle of the Revolution of 1688, the most moderate and the most successful of all revolutions.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
La Virginie a joué un rôle de premier plan dans la révolution américaine. C’est là que se trouvent 40 % des esclaves du pays, mais c’est de là aussi que viennent la majeure partie des acteurs de la révolte qui a éclaté au nom de la liberté.