Laurent Dubois quotes

“The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was really the first place where there was a large scale emancipation experiment.”
-- Laurent Dubois

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 20, 2010.

#Firsts Quotes #Revolution Quotes #Remember Quotes

“The transformations of the French empire itself or of French power structures themselves as well as the emergence of a kind of language of equal rights starting with the American Revolution and the French Revolution provided an opportunity and in some ways connected with other kinds of ground level desires or hopes and ideologies for freedom that were coming out of the plantation regime itself.”
-- Laurent Dubois

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 20, 2010.

#Opportunity Quotes #Rights Quotes #Desire Quotes

“It's important to remember there is a 20 year US. occupation of Haiti from 1915 to 1934. That represents a major transition in the history of the country and kind of reshaping partly in terms of just their direction of their attention.”
-- Laurent Dubois

#Country Quotes #Years Quotes #Important Quotes

“This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.”

“From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.3, Da Capo Press

“If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.”

“After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.”

Source : "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

“All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable”

Source : Albie Sachs (2011). “The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter”, p.133, Souvenir Press

“Our countrymen have all the folly of the ***** and all the passiveness of the sheep.”

“Remember you love writing.  It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t.  If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back,”

“Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.”

Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1983). “I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology”, Crossroad Publishing Company

“We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.”

“Remembering the Mystery is a way of being everything you always already are.”