Famous quotes containing the words iii, absence, north, american and/or version:
“The army is the true nobility of our country.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)
“Being oppressed means the absence of choices.”
—bell hooks (b. 1955)
“The English were very backward to explore and settle the continent which they had stumbled upon. The French preceded them both in their attempts to colonize the continent of North America ... and in their first permanent settlement ... And the right of possession, naturally enough, was the one which England mainly respected and recognized in the case of Spain, of Portugal, and also of France, from the time of Henry VII.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The rising power of the United States in world affairs ... requires, not a more compliant press, but a relentless barrage of facts and criticism.... Our job in this age, as I see it, is not to serve as cheerleaders for our side in the present world struggle but to help the largest possible number of people to see the realities of the changing and convulsive world in which American policy must operate.”
—James Reston (b. 1909)
“Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)