Saturday, October 02, 2004
Uncle Gavin on Freedom
"Not all white people can endure slavery and apparently no man can stand freedom (Which incidentally--the premise that man really wants peace and freedom--is the trouble with our relations with Europe right now, whose people not only dont know what peace is but--except for Anglo Saxons--actively fear and distrust personal liberty; we are hoping without really any hope that our atom bomb will be enough to defend an idea as obsolete as Noah's Ark.); with one mutual instantaneous accord he forces his liberty into the hands of the first demagogue who rises into view: lacking that, he himself destroys and obliterates it from his sight and ken and even remembrance with the frantic unanimity of a neighbrhood stamping out a grass-fire. But the people named Sambo survived the one and who knows? they may even endure the other........."
~by way of William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust
~by way of William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust
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