Moving to a new Mastodon instance.

My new address will be @ericmacknight

Another clip from the 1960 interview with Paul Robeson on Australian television. #blackhistorymonth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS-KRBSrhbc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puOIdh944vk

#blackhistorymonth

"Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false."

—Bertrand Russell, "Unpopular Essays"

"Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one."

"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear."

—Bertrand Russell, "Unpopular Essays"

"The whole conception of superior races is merely a myth generated by the overweening self-esteem of the holders of power. It may be that, some day, better evidence will be forthcoming . . . . But as yet no such evidence exists, and all talk of superior races must be dismissed as nonsense."

—Bertrand Russell, "Unpopular Essays"

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

—Original preface to "Animal Farm" as published in "George Orwell: Some Materials for a Bibliography" (1953) by Ian R. Willison

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell