The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all ...the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In Sumter and other counties [in South Carolina] the whites are resorting to intimidation and violence to prevent the colored peop...le from organizing for the elections. The division there is still on the color line. Substantially all the whites are Democrats and all the colored people are Republicans. There is no political principle in dispute between them. The whites have the intelligence, the property, and the courage which make power. The negroes are for the most part ignorant, poor, and timid. My view is that the whites must be divided there before a better state of things will prevail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is easy to see how adolescence becomes so frustrating, and old age so abhorrent, to many people. The life line is disempowered ...at two major points: at the beginning and at the end. The only acceptable place is in the middle. Power is conferred only on adults. It is denied to youth and seniors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it tha...n the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unfortunately, we cannot rely solely on employers seeing that it is in their self-interest to change the workplace. Since the bene...fits of family-friendly policies are long-term, they may not be immediately visible or quantifiable; companies tend to look for success in the bottom line. On a deeper level, we are asking those in power to change the rules by which they themselves succeeded and with which they identify.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a... sporting God to plague his creature, per pro his chosen shits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »