People
- Andrea Blackett (born 1976), Barbadian athlete
- Sir Basil Blackett (1882-1935), finance expert
- Basil Blackett (1886-1920), WW1 flying ace
- Edmund Blacket (1817-1883), Australian architect
- Blackett baronets
- Sir William Blackett, 1st Baronet, of Matfen (1620-1680) businessman and MP
- Sir Edward Blackett, 2nd Baronet of Matfen (1649-1718) MP, builder of Newby Hall
- Sir Edward Blackett, 3rd Baronet (1683–1756) Royal Navy officer
- Sir Edward Blackett, 4th Baronet of Matfen (1719-1804) MP
- Sir William Blackett, 1st Baronet, of Newcastle (1657- 1705) MP
- Sir William Blackett, 2nd Baronet of Newcastle (1690-1728) MP
- Calverley-Blackett baronets
- Sir Walter Blackett, 2nd Baronet (born Calverley) MP
- John Blackett (1821-1856), British politician
- Lee Blackett (born 1982), rugby player
- Lindsay Blackett (born 1961), Canadian politician
- Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett (1897-1974), scientist - Nobel prize winner
- Shane Blackett (born 1982), soccer player
- Blackett of Wylam
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“You can’t put fourteen hundred people out of work because the world has a stomach ache.”
—Fredric M. Frank (1911–1977)
“If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one’s heroic ancestors. It’s astounding to me, for example, that so many people really seem to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free. That happens not to be true. What happened was that some people left Europe because they couldn’t stay there any longer and had to go someplace else to make it. They were hungry, they were poor, they were convicts.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)