Propaganda poster featuring Mao and his wife, Jiang Qing.
(I’m sorry, I don’t know what that this says.)
Propaganda poster featuring Mao and his wife, Jiang Qing.
(I’m sorry, I don’t know what that this says.)
1934 film poster of Jiang Qing, wife of Mao Zedong
A piece of American film propaganda from WWII that defines “us” and “them.” This is only one video of a seven-part series. It’s called “The Prelude to War” and won an Academy Award in 1942. Really fascinating stuff.
I take great pride in and highly appreciate the fact that our people have overcome the ordeals of history and displayed to the full the heroic mettle of the revolutionary people and the indomitable spirit of chuch’e Korea, firmly united behind the party … . No difficulty is insurmountable nor is any fortress impregnable for us when our party leads the people with the ever-victorious chuch’e-oriented strategy and tactics and when all the people turn out as one under the party’s leadership.
—Kim Il-sung (김일성), President of North Korea (1972-1994).
(I highly recommend a visit to the site from which I got this image, it’s fascinating. http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/recent_scenes_from_north_korea.html
![“Sooner or later, [the I.R.A.] has been saying, British troops would put the boot in good and hard. People have been half expecting this. Sunday in Derry has fitted the piece of the jigsaw in. My personal view is that the risk of civil war here has never been greater.”
—Oliver Napier, former vice chairman of the Alliance Party
(my own photo from the Free Derry Museum in Derry, Northern Ireland)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9d8oejKyM1qdkai2o1_500.jpg)
“Sooner or later, [the I.R.A.] has been saying, British troops would put the boot in good and hard. People have been half expecting this. Sunday in Derry has fitted the piece of the jigsaw in. My personal view is that the risk of civil war here has never been greater.”
—Oliver Napier, former vice chairman of the Alliance Party
(my own photo from the Free Derry Museum in Derry, Northern Ireland)
Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.
—Gerry Adams (1948-pres.), President of Sinn Féin
(my own photo of the Hands Across the Divide statue in Derry, Northern Ireland)
Let us ask, where is your conscience?
—Lin Zexu (林则徐) in a letter to Queen Victoria (1839)
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common rule of the contending classes.
—Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848)
All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; so why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere?
—Emperor Hirohito (裕仁), 1901-1989
Suddenly, as the riot squad moved in, it was raining exclamation
marks,
Nuts, bolts, nails, car-keys. A fount of broken type. And the
explosion
Itself – an asterisk on the map. This hyphenated line, a burst of
rapid fire…
I was trying to complete a sentence in my head, but it kept
stuttering.
All the alleyways and side-streets blocked with stops and colons.
—”Belfast Confetti,” Ciarán Carson (1948-pres.)
