Book of Isaiah Quotes
He who is liberal devises liberal things; and by liberal things he shall stand.
Old Testament, Isaiah 32:8 (American Revision)
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Sullivan was the first political ward boss in America. His ward was the Bowery and Lower East Side of New York City. He served on term in Congress and although he could have served as long as he wished, he found it very distasteful and went back to being a New York State Senator and running his ward where he controlled everything that had to do with politics, government services and even crime. His ward consisted of Irish, Italians, Jews and Chinese whose commonality is that there were all poor immigrants of first generation Americans.
This is an excellent example of the political dirty trick of demonizing the opposition. There are Americans of different political persuasion all over the country. However, Limbaugh takes his opponents and describes them in terms that would be used for sexual predators or would be rapists or robbers. “Hiding in the shadows” and “lurking” are not contexts that we would normally use to describe political activists—especially those as numerous as liberals. Pejorative language can do the demonizing especially if it is repeated over and over again. This was illustrated by Joseph Geobbels the Nazi German propaganda minister who turned the technique into an art form. Ironically, he too in 1933 used the same technique to demonize liberals as well. See {601659}.
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Bruce is one of the few American Comedians to so offend the political establishment that he was constantly legally harassed throughout his career. He was actually criminally convicted in New York for obscenity. In 2003 he was posthumously pardoned by the New York Governor, the first posthumous pardon in state history.
At the time most conservatives were very angry and hostile to liberals and attacked those who disagreed with them.
“Liberalism” was a catch all Chinese term at the time which was very derogatory in Communist vernacular very much like the negative connotation of liberalism to American Conservatives at the turn of the millennium 1990-2010.
The Book of Isaiah (Hebrew: ספר ישעיהו, [ˈsɛ.fɛr jə.ʃaʕ.ˈjaː.hu]) is the first of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible and the first of the Major Prophets in the Christian Old Testament. It is identified by a superscription as the words of the 8th-century BCE prophet Isaiah ben Amoz, but there is extensive evidence that much of it was composed during the Babylonian captivity and later. Johann Christoph Döderlein suggested in 1775 that the book contained the works of two prophets separated by more than a century, and Bernhard Duhm originated the view, held as a consensus through most of the 20th century, that the book comprises three separate collections of oracles: Proto-Isaiah (chapters 1–39), containing the words of the 8th-century prophet Isaiah; Deutero-Isaiah (chapters 40–55), the work of an anonymous 6th-century BCE author writing during the Exile; and Trito-Isaiah (chapters 56–66), composed after the return from Exile. Isaiah 1–33 promises judgment and restoration for Judah, Jerusalem and the nations, and chapters 34–66 presume that judgment has been pronounced and restoration follows soon. While virtually no scholars today attribute the entire book, or even most of it, to one person, the book's essential unity has become a focus in more recent research.
