Frederick Douglass

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them..." Frederick Douglass

Monday, March 12, 2012

Arundati Roy On Colonized Imaginations

She has a way of reducing things to their essence without robbing them of their complexity. Or rather she has a way of relating complexity as nuance, I'm not sure which. She's brilliant--save for her wardrobe.

Capitalism - A Ghost Story (4th Anuradha Ghandy Memorial Trust Lecture)

Democracy and Dissent in China and India