Ira Berlin quotes
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“[B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the messy, inchoate reality of history as lived.”
-- Ira BerlinSource : Ira Berlin (2009). “Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America”, p.5, Harvard University Press
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“For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement.”
-- Ira Berlin
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“I'd like to set things straight, a few more people should be pulling their weight.”
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Source : Alain Badiou (2002). “Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil”, p.52, Verso
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