History of the Modern World - FALL 24, SUMNER

Quotes and sources that will be on the final exam

“As the inhumane traffic of slavery is now taken into the consideration of the British legislature, I doubt not, if a system of commerce was established in Africa, the demand for manufactures would most rapidly augment, as the native inhabitants would insensibly adopt the British fashions, manners, customs, etc.”

Olaudah Equiano, “The Case Against the Slave Trade” (1789)

“Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.”

Teddy Roosevelt, "The Roosevelt Corollary" (1904)

“Take up the White Man's burden--Have done with childish days--The lightly proferred laurel, The easy, ungrudged praise. Comes now, to search your manhood, Through all the thankless years, Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom, The judgment of your peers!”

Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden" (1899)

“It is with the people of Africa, then, that our inquiry is concerned. It is they who carry the ‘Black man’s burden…’ In hewing out for himself a fixed abode in Africa, the white man has survived, and it is well for the white settlers that he has. In the process of imposing his political dominion over the African, the white man has carved broad and bloody avenues from one end of Africa to the other. The African has resisted, and persisted.”

Edmund D. Moral, “The Black Man’s Burden” (1920)

“Only in communist society, when the resistance of the capitalists has been completely crushed…only then ‘the state’ ceases to exist and it becomes possible to speak of freedom.”

Vladimir Lenin, “The Transition from Capitalism to Communism” (1917)

“That woman has too long rested satisfied in the circumscribed limits which corrupt customs and a perverted application of the Scriptures have marked out for her, and that it is time she should move in the enlarged sphere which her great Creator has assigned her.”

E.C.Staton, “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions” (1848)

“This opportunity…is now coming within your power to give her. For my belief is that if we live another century or so—I am talking of the common life which is the real life and not of the little separate lives which we live as individuals—and have five hundred a year each of us and rooms of our own; if we have the habit of freedom and the courage to write exactly what we think…then the opportunity will come.”

Virginia Woolf, "A Room of One's Own" (1929)

“Sweet and fitting it is to die for one’s country.”

Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est” (1918)

“After thirteen years during which they have totally destroyed Germany, the time has finally come now to eliminate them, too. Whether the current parliamentary parties survive is not important, what matters is to save the German nation from complete destruction.”

Adolf Hitler, “Appeal to the Nation” (1932)

“…that the said committee…distorted, misrepresented, and omitted in its effort to manufacture a plausible rationalization in support of its recommendation to the Senate…acted contrary to senatorial ethics and tended to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute…and such conduct is hereby condemned.”

Transcript of Senate Resolution 301: Censure and Senator Joseph McCarthy