Philip Francis Quotes
Oppression is more easily endured than insult.
Francis, Philip. The Letters of Junius. Henry Sampson Woodfall, 1772.
Although Rand is one of the Conservatives' favorite writers and philosophers, only a minority would agree with her unfeeling and extreme form of a capitalistic society.
Alexie, an American Indian, studied wrote about the phenomenon whereby the Indians who were brutalized and attacked by whites with modern weapons and other technological advantages, in the process of defending themselves and their way of life became oppressors to whites in many situations where they could dominate a local scene. Likewise, the Israelis, who were totally oppressed in the Middle East for years and dominated by the more numerous Arabs with over a dozen established national armies attacking the Jewish civilian population when Israel first became a state. However the Jews survived and each time the Arabs attacked and further oppressed the Israelis, the Jews became stronger until at some point the became oppressors of many of the Arabs. The oppressors became the oppressed and vica versa.
He raised the ethical issue in his classic study of poor whites. He was one of the first to call attention to this and other factors such as objectivity given the background and culture of the journalist or writer.
Sir Philip Francis GCB (22 October 1740 – 23 December 1818) was an Irish-born British politician and pamphleteer, thought to be the author of the Letters of Junius, and the chief antagonist of Warren Hastings. His accusations against the latter led to the impeachment of Warren Hastings and Elijah Impey by Parliament. He belonged to the Whig party.
