My Father Was A Teacher, And There

Property-owners Are The Most Energetic Flag-waggers And Patriots In Every Country, But Only So Long As They Enjoy Their Possessions: To Safeguard Those They Desert God, King And Country In A Twinkling.

All Peoples Are Entangled In The Net Of The World Market.

It Is Over One Hundred Years Since The Abolition Of Slavery. The Negro People In The United States Have Taken Plenty And They Have Reached A Stage Where They Have Decided That They Are Not Going To Take Any More.

It Is Toussaint's Supreme Merit That While He Saw European Civilisation As A Valuable And Necessary Thing, And Strove To Lay Its Foundations Among His People, He Never Had The Illusion That It Conferred Any Moral Superiority. He Knew French, British, And Spanish Imperialists For The Insatiable Gangsters That They Were, That There Is No Oath Too Sacred For Them To Break, No Crime, Deception, Treachery, Cruelty, Destruction Of Human Life And Property Which They Would Not Commit Against Those Who Could Not Defend Themselves.

The Cruelties Of Property And Privilege Are Always More Ferocious Than The Revenges Of Poverty And Oppression. For The One Aims At Perpetuating Resented Injustice, The Other Is Merely A Momentary Passion Soon Appeased.