Slaves fought against their subhuman treatment in a myriad of ways, from passive resistance to armed insurrection. This encyclopedia details how slaves struggled against their bondage, highlights key revolts, and delves into important cultural and religious ideas that nurtured and fed slaves' hunger for freedom.
Resistance and Rebellion: Lessons from Eastern Europe explains how ordinary people become involved in resistance and rebellion against powerful regimes. The book shows how a sequence of casual forces - social norms, focal points, rational calculation - operate to drive individuals into roles of passive resistance and, at a second stage, into participation in community-based rebellion organization.
By linking the operation of these mechanisms to observable social structures, the work generates predictions about which types of community and society are. Poets on the march: 50 crucial poems written in response to the current political climate, selected and introduced by the Ohio Poet Laureate—and son of immigrants—Amit Majmudar. In a political atmosphere where language and even meaning itself are continually under threat, poetry has a critical role to play.
And our poets have been responding—in the streets and at their desks, demanding a full accounting from themselves and from their nation. Majmudar's elegant introduction to these vital poems reminds.
In The Postcolonial State in Africa, Crawford Young offers an informed and authoritative comparative overview of fifty years of African independence, drawing on his decades of research and first-hand experience on the African continent.
Young identifies three cycles of hope and disappointment common to many of the African states including those in North Africa over the last half-century: initial euphoria at independence in the s followed by disillusionment with a lapse into single-party autocracies and military rule; a period of.
This long overdue, vivid and wide-ranging examination of the significance of the resistance of the enslaved themselves - from sabotage and running away to outright violent rebellion - shines fresh light on the end of slavery in the Atlantic World. I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one.
This world has at least the truth of man; and our task is to provide it justifications against fate itself. And it has no justification but man; hence he must be saved if we want to save the idea we have of life. It lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition. And if his condition is unjust, he has only one way of overcoming it, which is to be just himself. Our truth of this evening… is just what consoles man. First, there is a lay pharisaism in which I shall strive not to indulge.
To me a lay Pharisee is the person who pretends to believe that Christianity is an easy thing and asks of the Christian… more than he asks of himself. I believe indeed that the Christian has many obligations but that it is not up to man who rejects them himself to recall their existence to anyone who has already accepted them. If there is anyone who can ask anything of the Christian, it is the Christian himself… The other day… a Catholic priest said in public that he too was anticlerical.
Hence I shall not… try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share with you the same revulsion from evil. But I do not share your hope, and I continue to struggle against this universe in which children suffer and die. But freedom is not made up principally of privileges; it is made up especially of duties. But I love a few men, living or dead, with such force and admiration that I am always eager to preserve in others what will someday perhaps make them resemble those I love.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst. Bacon is right in saying that there is no passion so weak that it cannot confront and overpower fear of death. Revenge, love, honor, pain, another fear manage to overcome it… For centuries the death penalty… has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
They are variable forces constantly waxing and waning, and their repeated lapses from equilibrium nourish the life of the mind as electrical oscillations, when close enough, set up a current. Dann eines, das sie aus dem Feuer rettet. Das Herz von Rudi. Die Herzen von Hans und Rosa Hubermann. Das Herz von Max.
Und das des Todes. Denn selbst der Tod hat ein Herz.
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