Sublime

John Dewey and Paulo Freire in articulating the interrelation of politics and education.

Why a democratic people is less capable of sustained effort than another.

How easy it was to destroy a man’s good name and reputation by suggesting he was in some way subversive or by calling him a communist.

Such trends compelled me to stand my ground. I worked to expose Said’s Orientalism screed, noting that the first experts on the Middle East came from Germany and Hungary, neither of which ever colonized the region.

it is oppression, and not the extent of the executive power, which excites their hostility, and they attack the former without perceiving how nearly it is connected with the latter.

Problem

after the 1964 Civil Rights Bill became law, “racists redoubled their efforts in the name of patriotism and Christianity, to suppress not only black people but all nonracists,”