as i said before, i am currently reading A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn. I want to share a few quotes, mostly for myself, but maybe someone will appreciate them.
first one, because it can be so perfectly applied to today:
“How our hearts burned with indignation against the atrocious Spaniards!…But when the smoke was over, the dead buried, and the cost of the war came back to the people in an increase in the price of commodities and rent – that is, when we sobered up from our patriotic spree – it suddenly dawned on us that the cause of the Spanish-American war was the price of sugar…that the lives, blood, and money of the American people were used to protect the interests of the American capitalists.” – Emma Goldman
“There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour. Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation,and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival…” – Frederick Douglas
“Let us go to war. The world has become stale and insipid, the ships ought to be all captured, and the cities battered down, and the world burned up, so that we can start again. There would be fun in that. Some interest, – something to talk about.” New York Journal of Commerce August 1845