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In December, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, a quiet, dignified black seamstress, Rosa Parks, refused to move to the back of a bus to make room for a white passenger, and was arrested for violating the Alabama bus segregation laws. A meeting in the church of Mrs. Parks’ pastor, a twenty-six-year-old black preacher named Martin Luther King Jr. who, as
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
The Straussian Moment
gwern.netAny election can be the last, or at least the last in the lifetime of the person casting the vote.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
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The action of authority is indeed thus rendered less irresistible and less perilous, but it is not totally suppressed.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
Il est possible que, au fil des générations, la Liberté américaine soit devenue une fiction du passé – comme elle est, dans une certaine mesure, une fiction du présent –, les poètes du monde seront inspirés par la mythologie américaine.