Dorothy Blake Quotes
It does seem terribly unfair that such thousands of people are born and live and die with no past to regret and no future to look forward to.
Eleanor Roosevelt referred to this quotation in her column of June 8, 1936.
Dorothy Blake, 1892-*, Author, The Diary of a Suburban Housewife, 1936
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Even a cursory reading of the Koran and early Muslim history would show that there were vast inequalities in the economic order long before the ‘imperialists’ were involved in the Middle East. Throughout the Islamic world there has always been the oppressors and the oppressed and inequality has usually been much worse than in the ‘imperialist’ countries.
Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
The nobles of the city were in rebellion and fought the English Prince of Wales. When the city was taken, the poor people as well as the nobles were executed for their part in the “rebellion.” However, the poor had no say in the matter, and it was not they who ordered the city gates shut and decided to undergo a siege, which in this case was not successful. Limoges was a heavily walled city, well provisioned for a siege, but the English had miners who undermined part of the city walls and crashed them into the moat and allowed the English to walk in easily.
He was shot by the Fascist / Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War for his views.
Hoovervilles were camps of people who lived in city parks or empty land. Tar paper shacks sheltered some—others lived in boxes. People had no work and no prospects of work; they had no money for rent; they just lived a meager existence as best they could under conditions that today exist only in the third world. They were named Hoovervilles for the President at the time whose ineptness and philosophy simply let things deteriorate. Republicans were critical of many of Roosevelt’s economic policies, but the president would periodically remind them and the nation of what the situation was when the Republicans last ran the country.
The president was right. There is enough food to go around. The problem however is logistical, economic, and political. Some countries use food as a weapon to keep their own people under control. The major problem is the distribution of the food. It has to be transported from where it is gown to where it should be consumed. Much food in the third world rots because the transportation system cannot move the food efficiently enough. Even when food is donated to nations, the free or cheap food undercuts the local farmers who go out of business and there is even less food the following year.
The letter was written 9 days after the Battle of Bunker Hill.
This important statement would not have been a noteworthy quote as so many have said it before, except for the fact that she was writing as a spokesperson of Nationalist China and she was the wife of the Nationalist Party leader, Chiang Kai-Shek. And the great failure of Chiang’s governance was the corruption and the excessive exploitation of the Chinese people by the wealthy. Madame Chaing, educated at Vassar College, knew just what to say to Americans and she mustered incredible support for the Nationalist cause most of which would never have been forthcoming if Americans knew the truth about the Nationalist Government. It was so corrupt, that the vast majority of the people aided the Communists in defeating Chaing, expelling him from the mainland, and relegating his government to Taiwan. Madame Chaing’s hypocrisy was legend. See {615696}.
