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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo-obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

Angela Davis

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Topic

Prison

Author

Angela Davis

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1974 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Davis, Angela. Angela Davis: An Autobiography. Random House, 1974, ch. 1.

Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life... Then in the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.

Lucretia Mott

Discourse on Woman

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Topic

Women's rights Women's equality

Speaker

Lucretia Mott

Source

Discourse on Woman

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

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Original Citation

Mott, Lucretia. "Discourse on Woman." 17 Dec. 1849, Philadelphia's Assembly Hall, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Lecture.

Current Citation

Mott, Lucretia. "Lucretia Mott: Why Should Not Woman Seek to Be a Reformer?" Great Speeches by American Women, edited by James Daley. Dover Publications, 2007.

The costume of woman... Should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness... While it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance.

Amelia Jenks Bloomer

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Topic

Clothing

Author

Amelia Jenks Bloomer

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1857 1850s 19th century

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Original Citation

Bloomer, Amelia Jenks. Letter to Charlotte Joy. 3 June 1857.

Current Citation

Bloomer, Amelia Jenks. Quoted in Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer, written by Dexter C. Bloomer. Scholarly Press, 1975.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.

James Weldon Johnson

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Topic

American music

Author

James Weldon Johnson

Source

Black Manhattan

Language

English

Time

1930 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Johnson, James Weldon. Black Manhattan. Alfred A. Knopf, 1930, ch. 11.

Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a "cowardly" attack on "civilization" or "liberty" or "humanity" or "the free world" but an attack on the world's self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions?

Susan Sontag

On the 9/11 attacks.

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Topic

September 11th Terrorism International politics Politics

Author

Susan Sontag

Source

The New Yorker

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Sontag, Susan. "The Talk of the Town: Tuesday, and After." The New Yorker, 24 Sept. 2001. www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/09/24/tuesday-and-after-talk-of-the-town