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lickystickypickywe:

Americans are familiar with seeing the phrase “In God We Trust” on our paper money.  The motto is, indeed, the official United States motto.  It wasn’t always that way, however.  While efforts to have the phrase inscribed on U.S. currency began during the Civil War, it wasn’t until 1957 that it appeared on our paper money, thanks to a law signed by President Eisenhower.

The motto wasn’t simply added in order to please God-fearing Americans, but instead had a political motivation.  The mid- to late-1950s marked an escalation in the Cold War between the U.S., the Soviet Union, and their respective allies.  In an effort to claim moral superiority and demonize the communist Soviet Union, the U.S. drew on the association of communism with atheism.  Placing “In God We Trust” on the U.S. dollar was a way to establish the United States as a Christian nation and differentiate them from their enemy.

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villiljos:

fromonesurvivortoanother:

[image: Stokley Carmichael at a podium, saying: “In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience.”]

“Dr. King’s policy was that non-violence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His main assumption was that if you were non-violent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That’s very good. He only made one fallacious assumption. In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience.” -Stokley Carmichael

This is the most obvious thing in the world, but I never thought about it that way until now. Yet another reason for me to question non-violence in certain contexts…

Yes. Yes yes yes yes yes. This is exactly why non-violence doesn’t always work, put into words perfectly. 

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ritual-de-lo-habitual:

Del tha Funkee Homosapien

fuldagap:

Wähler entscheidet Euch! Stinnesdiktatur oder Diktatur des Proletariats? / Voters decide! Stinnes dictatorship or dictatorship of the proletariat?

Proclamation of the Irish Republic, 1916

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soviet-posters:

the October revolution - the bridge to the bright future

grave-wisdom:

“When you talk about a revolution most people think violence without realizing that the real content of any kind of revolutionary thrust lies in the principles and the goals that you are striving for not in the way the way you reach them. On the other hand because of the way this society is organized, because of the violence that exists on the surface everywhere you have to expect that they are going to be such explosions, you have to expect things like that as reactions. If you are a black person and live in the black community all your life and walk out on the street every day seeing white police men surrounding you, and when you live under a situation like that constantly and then you ask me whether I approve of violence? That doesn’t make any sense at all.

Whether I approve of guns? I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. Some very good friends of mine were killed by bombs, bombs that were planted by racists. I remember from the time I was very small, I remember the sounds of bombs exploding across the street, our house shaking, I remember my father having to have guns at his disposal at all times because of the fact at any moment we might expect to be attacked. The man who was at that time in complete control of the city government, his name was Bill Conner would often get on the radio and make statements like, “niggers have moved into a white neighborhood we better expect some bloodshed tonight”, and sure enough there would be bloodshed.

That’s why when someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible because what it means is that the person who is asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country since time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.”

Angela Davis 

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