Toqueville on Democracy in America

The great advantage of the Americans is, that they have arrived at a state of democracy without having to endure a democratic revolution; and that they are born equal, instead of becoming so – Alexis de Toqueville, Democracy in AmericaHonestly, I’m very disturbed by the latter part of the quote , “that they (Americans) are [...]

QUOTE DU JOUR

Human nature manifests itself universally in the quest for freedom. Political self-government emanates from individual self-control.- Joyce Appleby, Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination, 1.

On Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama Two days ago, I read a thought-provoking post written by our own Michael L. Westmoreland-White ( peace activist, Christian ethicist and theologian) entitled Why I Am Supporting Barack Obama for President. Wesmoreland-White writes, “I want to live in an America where the son of a Kenyan father and a white Kansan mother [...]

W.E. B. Dubois (1868 -1963)

Source: W.E.B.Dubois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born on Church Street on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, at the south-western edge of Massachusetts, to Alfred Du Bois and Mary Silvina Burghardt Du Bois, whose February 5, 1867, wedding had been announced in the Berkshire Courier. Alfred Du Bois had been born in Haiti. [...]