Conflicts Quotes
Executed by the English for his part in the Easter Uprising.
His most influential teacher was the English philosopher and feminist, Annie Besant, 1847-1933. See her quotations for some parallel ideas.
The president believes that Israel was created solely to atone for the Holocaust. He has suggested that Israel should be in Europe. He does not mention the fact that that most of the Middle East including Israel, Palestine, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and others where part of a Jewish Kingdom over 2000 years ago and Jews were in the Holy Land ever since. He also does not consider the fact that Arab leaders were allies of the Nazis and supported the Holocaust.
The small commercial and amateur, and community radio stations were thriving but they could only afford small transmitters that only reached the local area. The large commercial radio stations wanted by be able to broadcast to the entire country and could afford huge transmitters but if a local station was on the same frequency the small station would be heard in the local area and not the large. The large corporations then lobbied the Federal regulators and thousands of small radio stations were kicked off the airwaves so that the large stations could have “clear channels” across the country. It turned out that the small entities did not have equal rights. See {641990}) & {641992}). This quotation is an excellent example of large businesses who usually claim to oppose Federal regulation and interference with private enterprise, really urging more Federal Regulation so as to interfere with smaller firms whose markets they coveted. The Republican administrations of Presidents Harding, Coolidge & Hoover were instrumental in eliminating the competition of the large radio stations and networks.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston
This clause has been the cause of immense problems in the Mid-East. Hamas castigates any Palestinian who even suggests that there should be negotiations with Israel that are sincere as nothing less than the end of Israel is consistent with their charter. Anyone who uses the peace process for anything else but tactical advantage and buying time to strike again is a traitor. Meanwhile, the clause is taken be Israel to demonstrate that there is no point to any negotiations so long as the Palestinian Authority allows such an organization with this charter clause to be legal and operate in the open. The Palestinian Authority leadership are not willing to risk a civil war, and thus little or no progress is made.
Blacks were fighting and dying in WWII. They were equal when they were under fire, but otherwise not. The war was against fascist protagonists whose creed was inequality while the allies were upholding freedom and equality. But making that aspiration a reality was difficult.
The Title of the Article has often been used to summarize his thesis in this quotation. It has been used so much that most people think that Huntington first originated the phrase and idea. Actually, it was Bernard Lewis. See {636820}
