37 Reconstruction Quotes for You to Enjoy

The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old regime. Only the guiding layers of a class have a political program, and even this still requires the test of events and the approval of the masses. Leon Trotsky

Class Events Political Old Feeling Revolution Approval Guiding Reconstruction Only Layers Sharp Masses Still Test Go Endure Cannot Regime Social Plan Requires Even Prepared Program

When a nation has just emerged from the throes of a great civil warfare, where section was arrayed against section, class against class, two things are to be done: First, the work of reconstruction is to be effected; Secondly, a willingness for the proper acceptance of the issue's decision is to be created. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

Work Great Class Acceptance Decision First Nation Secondly Section Willingness Civil Reconstruction Emerged Proper Issue Effected Done Just Where Against Warfare Created Things Two

Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood. W. E. B. Du Bois

Battle Men Long Chasing Poverty Edge White Reconstruction Eating Clay Vast Had Bewildered Sheer Been Up Labor Labor Movement Hanging Subsistence Movement Manhood Land Muddled Ignorant Who Fought Now Slaves

We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime). Bhagat Singh

Destruction Better Revolution Society State Complete Strife Systematic Must Reconstruction Clear Merely New Implies Make Does Affairs Existing Upheaval After Regime Mean Necessarily Basis Programme Adapted

What makes 'The Marriage of Souls' such a wonderful book is Collins's intricate reconstruction of the late eighteenth-century world. Simplicity and philosophy are the hallmarks of eighteenth-century art and architecture. The classically pure lines look deceptively simple and unburdened by heavy symbolism or imagery. Amanda Foreman

The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the mother, it is built up continually by the insetting of fresh materials. With every moment tiny molecules are passing away from it; with every moment tiny molecules are streaming into it. Annie Besant

Mother First Every Constantly Reconstruction Undergoing Fresh Built Passing Continually Materials Womb Up Decay Human Tiny Form Human Body Process Body Molecules Moment Away Streaming

Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls. Carly Simon

War Time Business Long Before Living Out City Reconstruction Town Like Sort Been Malls Being After Then

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. Charles Horton Cooley

Because of my intense hopes for the youth of China, I feel very keenly my responsibility for their future success or failure. The fate of China lies in their hands. The responsibility for organizing and training them to become worthy citizens of China, able to undertake the tasks of Resistance and Reconstruction, is mine; I cannot evade it. Chiang Kai-shek

Success Future Failure Youth Training Fate Responsibility Become Mine Future Success Worthy Citizens Hopes Lies Able Reconstruction Feel Because Undertake Very Hands Tasks Intense Cannot China Them Organizing Resistance

I had to have shoulder reconstruction. Daniel Craig

Reconstruction Had Shoulder

Slave narratives had their greatest influence on public opinion and on literature in the U.S. between 1830 and 1860. After Reconstruction's defeat, their urgency of tone was replaced by the softer one of reminiscence. Darryl Pinckney

Defeat Softer Reconstruction Had Between Opinion Greatest Narratives Replaced Influence After Literature Public Urgency Public Opinion Tone Slave

After Reconstruction, black newspapers evolved from being a propaganda arm into a kind of opposition press, because even the friends of former slaves had their fears. Darryl Pinckney

Black Fears Press Evolved Kind Reconstruction Propaganda Had Arm Because Opposition Friends Being After Former Newspapers Even Slaves

The demise of Reconstruction had made it hard for blacks to acquire capital or to pass on property to their children. As blacks were driven from all but the most limited spheres of business and political life, the prestige of the professional rose in the black community. Darryl Pinckney

Life Property Business Political Black Made Community Rose Spheres Prestige Black Community Reconstruction Blacks Driven Had Demise Most Limited Pass Were Political Life Children Acquire Capital Hard Professional

We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment. Earl Blumenauer

War Time Commitment Losing Responsibility Past Accountability Down Military Approach Our Reconstruction New New Approach Occupation Scope Iraq Past Time Won

People who teach American history survey classes have a lot of ground to cover and tend to focus on landmarks. You get through the Civil War and Reconstruction, and you have to get to the beginning of the 20th century fast. It's pretty easy to go lightly on the Gilded Age. H. W. Brands

War History You Age People Focus Beginning Easy Gilded Civil Reconstruction Classes Pretty Civil War Tend Through Lightly Go Cover Lot Survey Get American American History Century Landmarks Teach Ground Who Fast

Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside. Hanoi Hannah

Time Fight People World Long Long Time Our Has-Been Reconstruction Outside Attention Because Isolated Been After Much Much Attention Such A Long Time Even

These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children. Ingrid Betancourt

By facilitating a peace agreement and leading the reinvestment and reconstruction in Yemen, Saudi Arabia can turn around a failed state and bolster its standing as a global and regional leader. Jamal Khashoggi

Peace Leader State Arabia Reconstruction Failed Leading Global Around Yemen Regional Turn Standing Agreement Bolster Saudi Saudi Arabia

In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home. Jesse Jackson

Ten days after my 'one-step' reconstruction, I was on the beach with my daughter. Jessica St. Clair

Daughter Reconstruction Beach Ten Days After

India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there. Joschka Fischer

Has-Been India Reconstruction Strongly Been Very Contributing Afghanistan Much Engaged

If there is a tendency in modern television I hate, it is the unstoppable march of the dramatic reconstruction to tell the stories of anything from an ancient Egyptian battle to the early life of Paul Gascoigne. Kevin Macdonald

Life Battle Hate Dramatic Television Ancient Tell Reconstruction Tendency Unstoppable Modern Egyptian Stories Anything Paul March Early Early Life

The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that. Lakhdar Brahimi

Time Commitment Country Community Resources UN Has-Been Reconstruction Some About Point Never Talking Real Been Provide Any Afghanistan International Helping International Community Third

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