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Max Weber
b. 4-21-1864; Erfurt, Saxony, Prussia
d. 6-14-1920; Munich
Maximilian Weber, a lawyer, politician, political economist and sociologist, was viewed more as an historian during his lifetime.
Max Weber quotes ~
• “The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.”
• “Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.”
• “The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the ‘disenchantment of the world.’ Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations. It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental.”
• “Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say ‘In spite of all!’, has the calling for politics.”
• “Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.
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James Weinstein
b. 7-17-1926; NYC
6-16-2005; Chicago
Historian and journalist James Weinstein was the founding editor and publisher of In These Times magazine, and the founder of the Socialist Review. Weinstein authored several books, including The Decline of Socialism in America and The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State.
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Herbert George Wells
b. 9-21-1866; England
d. 8-13-1946
Author H. G. Wells, though best known for his work in the science fiction genre, he also wrote a three-volume work, The Outline of History. First published in 1920, it popularized history and there is now a 2005 edition.
H. G. Wells quotes ~
• “If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for a world peace – that is to say, an effective will for a world law under a world government – for in no other fashion is a secure world peace conceivable – in what manner may we expect things to move towards this end? . . . It is an educational task, and its very essence is to bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation, of history.”
• “A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.”
• “Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”
• “Our true nationality is mankind.”
• The Invisible Man book cover
• The Complete Short Stories of H.G. Wells
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Eliot Wigginton
b. 11-9-1942; West Virginia
Eliot Wigginton is an oral historian, folklorist, writer and former educator most widely known for the series of Foxfire books consisting of field reports by high school students from Rabun County, Georgia. He was a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in 1989.
Eliot Wigginton quotes ~
• “Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative.”
• “Life isn’t worth living unless you’re willing to take some big chances and go for broke.”
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William Appleman Williams
b. 1921; Atlanta, IA
d. 1990;
William Appleman Williams is one of the 20th century's most prominent historians of American diplomacy. His The Tragedy of American Diplomacy is often described as one of the most influential books written on American foreign policy, and Empire As A Way of Life is considered a seminal work on the study of American imperialism. (from book description)
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Carter Godwin Woodson
b. 12-19-1875; New Canton, VA
d. 4-3-1950; Washington, DC
Historian, author, and journalist Carter G. Woodson is best remembered as the “Father of Black History” and for establishing Black History Week that is now Black History Month.
Woodson, the son of former slaves, was self taught up to entering Douglass High School at age 20, where he earned a diploma in two years. Woodson then taught school and went on to earn a degree from Berea College (1903), and advance degrees from the University of Chicago (1908) and Harvard University (1912).
FYI ~ Woodson's parents, James and Elizae Riddle Woodson, moved their family to West Virginia when they heard that a high school for blacks was being built.
Carter G. Woodson quotes ~
• “I am a radical.”
• “In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.”
• “This crusade is much more important than the anti-lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.”
• “The mere imparting of information is not education.”
• “When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.”
• “Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.”
• “In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.”
• “If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.”
• “The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.”
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