Generations of devoted American history buffs have spent countless hours reading and writing long books about the American Revolution without ever having come across the name of Dr. Thomas Young. Yet it was Young who came up with the idea for the original tea party - the one in Boston Harbor.
I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.
J. Edgar Hoover’s counter-intelligence program was designed to prevent a Black Messiah from rising to unite the people.
Louis Eugene Walcott
Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it happened to Evita, Che Guevara, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda.
Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.
Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.
I couldn't think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state.
The images of twenty of the most illustrious families the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour were carried before it [the bier of Junia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed; but for that very reason they shone with pre-eminent lustre.
I want people to see that all-important time in a different way-in the way it was. For of a number of reasons, including the absence of photographs, we tend to see the men and women of the Revolution as not quite real. And we have far too little sense of what they suffered.
Castro has lived almost his entire life as a clandestine revolutionary. To such figures, truth is always malleable, always subservient to political goals.
