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“Something must be done to show these barbarians that we, too, have rights.” – John Brown The Pottawatomie massacre occurred on the night of May 24–25, 1856, in the Kansas Territory. In reaction to the sacking of Lawrence by pro-slavery forces on May 21, and the telegraphed news of the severe attack on May 22 on Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, for speaking out against slavery…
I believe all organized religion is based on myths and is responsible for most of the horror in the world now and in the past. I think nothing will change much because of continuing, probably atavistic, superstition, ignorance, and greed. It’s frightening that human beings continue to need scapegoats in order to justify themselves. I…
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. – Aldous Huxley You ever wonder how people end up the way they do? Yeah. Me,…
Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a few times, people say, “Hey, we got a crazy man in the community,” and they’ll begin talking to you. – Ray Bradbury Plump Pimpled Public Defender swears just like the last time there’s…
The antipathy toward [Irish Catholics] rested not only on their reputation for violence and their religious difference from the bulk of the city’s natives, but also upon their competition for jobs at the lowest occupational levels, their menial status, their foreign aspect and clannishness, and their notorious intemperance. – Dennis Clark Just because our brains…
The mess we are living in is a deliberate one. If it was created by people, it can be dismantled by people, and it can be rebuilt in a way that serves all, rather than a selfish, hoarding few. – Reni Eddo-Lodge I rip out magazine articles I want to read when time allows. Found this…
“These are the people we are up against. Progressive social media trolls like Senator Mallory McMorrow (D-Snowflake) who are outraged they can’t teach, can’t groom and sexualize kindergartners or that 8-year-olds are responsible for slavery,” Lana Theis‘ campaign e-mail. Michigan state Senator Mallory McMorrow responded in a swell speech – which almost made me cry…
“Every other male engaged in selling beer, and the rest of the men, women, and children consume it.” The Lager Beer Riot occurred on April 21,1855 in Chicago, Illinois. Mayor Levi Boone, a Nativist politician, renewed enforcement of an old local ordinance mandating that taverns be closed on Sundays and led the city council to raise the cost of a liquor license from $50 per year to…
The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to…
“Biden crime family & ballot fraud co-conspirators (elected officials, bureaucrats, social media censorship mongers, fake stream media reporters, etc.) are being arrested & detained for ballot fraud right now & over coming days, & will be living in barges off GITMO to face military tribunals for sedition,” Ginni Thomas quote-texted, adding: “I hope this is…