Quotes About Reconstruction

To build unity requires recognizing the central role of young activists. They are vigorously fighting the attack on this century's Reconstruction. Their anger at today's ugly society often translates into a passionate drive for unity across color lines.

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

I'm rubble too, he thinks. Just in a different form. The whole world and all its people. Rubble.

Não causa espanto que Marte seja o Deus da guerra e dos conflitos, assim como do progresso e da indústria. Ele destrói, reconstrói e volta a destruir. 'A guerra é o grande acelerador.

The end of Reconstruction is often spoken of in psychological terms, as a collapse of white Americans' nerve, or as a failure of Republican political will, when in cold truth Reconstruction did not fail so much as it was overthrown. Southern whites played the most obvious role in this overthrow, but they would never have succeeded without the consent of the Northern Democrats, who had never been in favor of an equitable Reconstruction, much less a bourgeois one.

I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or reconstructing my website or whatever it may be. I just love putting creativity into a performance, so if the right script comes along, and I certainly am reading comedies and dramas now, then I'm ready willing and able to give it a shot.

I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.

Some time ago, I investigated the possibility that a computer might be able to reconstruct a picture from sets of very accurate X-ray measurements taken through the body at a multitude of different angles.

I lay still for a while, picking up the scattered garments of my mind and trying to assemble some kind of reasonable outfit from them.

And here is the tabernacle reconstructed.

If you wanted to remold people, you had to break them down first.

But Lincoln says something about the future that's pretty amazing. He says that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom. And it does. The Reconstruction Amendments—the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth—give us a new set of founding principles.

And I also know that when this war is over, Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men, maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated, Laila. No chance.

the new farmhouse Uncle Henry built after the cyclone had carried away the old one.

but like all mothers whose children are growing up and drifting away from them, she felt an urge to stay in his shack as long as she could, to cling to anything that she could use, when he vanished from her life, to reconstruct a son from memory.

Una reconstrucción especulativa de un niño neandertal. Las pruebas genéticas indican que al menos algunos neandertales pudieron haber tenido la piel y el pelo claros.

I knew you"d never be American enough to help me reconstruct my life.

Real education is a radical process. It thumps you on the head until everything you know makes no sense anymore. Then you run around picking up the pieces of your head and picking them back together. The pieces never go back together in the same way.

And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

No, in the end, easier to tear it down and start over. The soundless scream of social media these days. The system must be destroyed. It can't be fixed. Unitopia must have begun to seem like a Band-Aid applied to a gaping chest wound.

surely you're enough of an armchair philosopher to realize that everything is a reconstruction of something else? Reality is a desperate and evasive creature.

I felt like a child. I was a child. I could blow things up but I couldn't put things back together.

I am a thousand scattered pieces that no one has bothered to put together.

For like the [American] Revolution, Reconstruction was an era when the foundations of public life were thrown open for discussin. Republicanism offered a potent argument for black suffrage, but ruled out the massive disengranchisement of Southern whites.