Georges Maget Quotes
For a Samurai to be brave, he must have a bit of black blood.
Often cited as a Japanese Proverb, however, there is no evidence of its general use. The quote can be traced to Georges Maget, a French Naval doctor in the 1870’s – see the article link in the citation. Magets reference to “black blood” is likely rooted in the French historical slang “sang noir,” which was used to describe non-noble blood.
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Sometimes falsely attributed to Jordan B. Peterson (even though he credits Solzhenitsyn).
The Canadian government had put down a brief rebellion led by Louis Riel, 1844-1885, in Winnipeg. French Canadians in Quebec identified with the nationalist and many protested his death sentence. Riel was hanged shortly thereafter.
He and other founders believed that Blacks freed from slavery would still suppress wages for whites and hurt industry. The possibility of intermarriage was also viewed as a moral degeneration. Approximately 15,000 Blacks chose to emigrate.
This quotation illustrates the disorganization of the Japanese Government at the time that the United States was attempting to force Japan to open the nation to trade. The Bakufu was a type of parallel government of the military. (It literally means “city of tents” and soldiers lived in tents.) The “Barbarians” were the Americans. The struggle between the civilian and military for governmental control has been ongoing in Japan for centuries until after the debacle of WWII with the Japanese militaristic government, Japan relegated the military to a minor role. But Japan’s Asian neighbors, who are familiar with Japanese History still worry about Japanese militarism.
Julian, the chemist who developed the industrial process of producing human steroids from soybeans, was the most famous and accomplished African American chemist at the time and the first Black laboratory director in America.
Connor turned out to have been of great assistance to the Civil Rights Movements. His red-neck, ignorant, virulent, irrational hatred and his position made him an iconic, living, hyperbole of the American Southern Racist.
In the letter, he was refusing a donation of five hundred guineas for his efforts in Parliament on behalf of the persecuted Roman Catholics of Ireland. See related quotes.
Nixon staff assistant Chuck Coulson used a variant of this quotation. See {628753}.
This was the intellectual basis of the famous speech by Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential race—see related quote.
In the midst of the Russo-Japanese War the Czar’s Popularity Was Extremely Low
Austin renounced his American citizenship and committed himself to Mexico where he was recruiting American emigrants for settlement in what is now Texas as a Mexican territory. Later, he grew disillusioned with the Mexican government and chose Texas independence.
