"One reason the sinews of community are so hard to restore is that they are at odds with free markets. Capitalism not only spews our cars, TVs & other antisocial technologies; it also sorts people into little vocational boxes and scatters the boxes far & wide. Economic opportunity is what drew farm boys into the cities, and it has been fragmenting families ever since" Robert Wright, "The Evolution of Despair", Time, vol. 146, No. 9, August 28, 1995, p. 38

"Disability is the under-theorised system of oppress in our hyper-theorised times. It is beyond the margins of the texts on marginality; it is the other Other ... (Michael) Oliver (in Understanding Disability: From Theory to Practice, Macmillan, London, 1996) is one of the creators of (the) social model of disability, which views it as a process that disables people with impairments and a consequence of industrialisation ... Enforcing Normalcy (Verso Books, London, 1996), by Leonard J. Davis) ... contends that disability, as a socially driven relation to the body ... was propelled by economic and social factors, and was part of a more general project of controlling and colonising the body ... bourgeois hegemony ...

(D)isability, rather than being a marginal focus of study, goes to the heart of communication, language, ideology and even nationalism. Disability issues are central to the construction of normalcy, and disability part of a process that defines and disables us all". Agnes Fletcher, "Other Wise" (Reviews), The New Statesman, 12 January, 1996, pp. 37-38

"The woman is man's field to produce his nation. If he does not keep the enemy out of his field, he won't produce a good nation. If we love our vegetable crops we will go out and turn up the leaves on that vegetable stalk and look carefully for worms that are eating and destroying the vegetables. We will kill that worm - right?

Again, we will go out into the cotton field and look for the enemies of our cotton and try to kill that enemy. We study poisons and chemicals of the earth and we pour these chemicals on the enemies of our crops to stop the enemies from destroying them ...

Is not your woman more valuable than that crop of corn, that crop of cotton ... How much more valuable is your woman than these crops that you should keep the enemies from destroying ... Yet you are not careful about your women. You don't love them. Why? Is it because you have allowed visitors to run in and out of your house, thus they have destroyed your love for your woman and your woman has not the love for you that she should". The Honourable Elijah Muhammad, "The Black Woman", The Final Call, January 17, 1996, Vol. 15, No. 6, p. 18

*"As Judith Lorber has shown through her extensive scholarship, gender is wholly constructed, symbolically loaded and ideologically enforced ... 'There is no core or bedrock human nature below these endlessly looping processes of the social production of sex & gender' ... ". John Rowan, "Discourse on Intercourse", p. 16

*"I grew up with the idea that men were harmful to women in many areas of life: in work, in the home (or rather, not in the home), in family life, in sex, on the streets. 'All men are potential rapists' summed up for me this view of women. I grew up afraid of sex ... Then I met a woman who told me that sometimes it was nice to have a 'quick one'. Then I met a woman who wore suspenders, and said one 'Fuck me, fuck me hard' ... I couldn't believe my ears. Women don't like that sort of thing. Women like gentle men' Women don't like being fucked." Steve Banks, "Fear of Fucking", p. 18

"In Gingrich's America, a hybrid New Right combines the fanatical religious beliefs of Pat Robertson, Ralph Reed and a cohort of biblical literalists with the economics of Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek to dictate the discourse ... The New Right uses racism to bind [the] discontent [of the affluent classes] into movement, and corks up class rage at a society that is failing them ... After year of calculated 'dumbing down' of the American culture, entire groups of people ... have been dehumanised". Sasha Abramsky, "Contract on America", November 1985, No. 18, p. 13

"David M. Anderson claims .... that supposedly [!!!!] centrally planned economies like in many African countries and China during the 1959-61 famine 'hardly inspires confidence' in the [view that centrally planned economies are better placed to manage food distribution] ... My point is made simply: the requirement is for properly planned approach. African states which have suffered famine and reacted ineffectually to it at least partly do so because, for all their centralisation of power, they lacked sufficient organisational nous; and Mao's mad Great Leap Forward was hardly an example of systematic famine-relief policy. As Anderson himself recognises., China has been outstandingly successful subsequently; and surely that was mostly because of a complex (if brutal) central control of agricultural production and distribution." Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Trinity College, Oxford, "Letter", Times Literary Supplement, 8 March, 1996, p. 19

"I saw a performance of 'Ecstasy' at the Jermyn Street Theatre, mainly due to the glowing review in Time Out ...

I've seen Mike Leigh's films and enjoyed some of them ... but this totally non-PC production was not an experience I'd ever want to repeat.

The characters are a group of losers and emotional retards who swear a lot, get pissed, brutalise members of the opposite sex and chain smoke during the entire performance. The Jermyn Street Theatre is not large and the audience was forced to suffer as passive smokers. I son found my eyes burning and my throat sore. If companies are going to indulge in productions like this one, I think the theatre should at least display a warning to the audience that if you are a non-smoker, like myself, you will not enjoy two-and-a-half hours sitting in an obnoxious cloud of cigarette smoke". "Colin Clarke, "Letters: Fag Shag", Time Out, May 22-29 1996, p. 186

"The present world (white people) have had their time and have gone over their time to rule. Nevertheless they still want to rule or destroy the idea of someone else ruling as showen by their preparations for the total destruction of the Human Family of the Earth ...

We are now told in many skillful and deceitful ways that the white world is prepared and is putting those preparations [to destroy the present population of the earth] into action against the Black Man.

The earth actually belongs to the Black man. This is made clear in the Bible and Holy Qur'an ... the world belongs to the Original Owners (Black Nation).

The white race was give a limited time (6,000) years to be the overlord (white) of our earth and ourselves. The white man is well aware that he does not own the earth and that he had no part in its creation. The scientists of the white race all know this ...

Integration is against the Desire and Will of God Who Wants and must Do that which is written He Will Come and Do: Restore the earth to its rightful owner (Black Man) ...

The white world ... have been building up their arms and arsenal and factories for this day, in order to kill the Black man. They are doing this in so many ways with drugs and the surgeon's knife in the hospitals. It is the greatest desire of the white man that he does not leave the Black Man in position to keep populating the earth under his own colour. Our women are the target. They want to stop them from bearing children. Millions of our women fall for this destruction of their race." The Honourable (sic) Elijah Muhammad, "Black & White Worlds Near a Showdown", The Final Call, 11 June, 1996, p. 18. Punctuation and capitalisation as in the original.

"Jewish leaders should stop denying the dominant role Jews play in Hollywood, and should condemn Jewish journalists and producers who vilify and stereotype African Americans in the media ....

The Jewish smear campaign against Blacks in the media - which has reinforced white America's antipathy toward Black's - can only be compared to Julius Streiker's degradation of Jews in Die Sturmer in Nazi Germany. It is astonishing that and ironic that Jewish leaders have failed to take any public stand against these flagrantly racist practices ...

The blatantly anti-Black posture of Jewish television and radio talk show hosts ....

Prominent newspaper ads must be published condemning Jewish scholars and scientists who espouse neo-Nazi theories regarding Black genetic inferiority ....

Never have any ... ads been taken out to expose the virulent racism of prominent Jews ...

Africentric scholars must be granted an equal opportunity to present their perspectives on world history ...

We demand that the unprovoked attacks against Black scholars by Jewish intellectuals cease today; and that the fascist denial of forums to Black scholars be exposed ...

Jewish leaders must apologise to Black people for the invention of the "Curse of Ham" by Jewish Talmudic scholars ... the Curse of Ham (which claims, among other things, that all Black people are forever destined to serve as the slaves of other races), the greatest albatross to ever encircle the neck of any people, is a myth for which Jews should apologise to Blacks ... the Curse of Ham was introduced by Jewish scholars in the Babylonian Talmud over a thousand years before the trans-Atlantic slave-trade (which resulted in the deaths and enslavement of one hundred million Africans) began ... this 'curse' provided 'the moral pretext' upon which the entire slave-trade grew and flourished. This myth has also been responsible for the social inferiorisation of generations of African people since the end of slavery.

If ever an apology were in order, this one, from Jews to Blacks, is long overdue. We would suggest to Jewish leaders that, before they demand another apology from any Black leader in America or Africa, including Minister Louis Farrakhan, that they think long and hard about the talmudic conceived Curse of Ham. Not even Hitler's evil deeds compare in magnitude to the genocidal legacy left by this myth of ancient Jewish origin.

... many prominent Jews in the media and in academia are consciously scapegoating Blacks, before the American public, in the same degrading way that the Nazis treated Jews, before the German public - an assault which resulted in the holocaust ...

... for years, the American media and major publishing houses have censored anything too sensitive for Jews to read ..." Marcus Lewis, "Manifesto on Black/Jewish 'Dialogues'", The Final Call, 11 June, 1996, p. 24

"If Sean French (June 28) wants to brag about eating the raw flesh of a mammal that was once sentient, highly social and probably at least as intelligent as himself - until it was harpooned and died, slowly, for his delectation - that is up to him. But he won't succeed in justifying such barbarism by calling the whale a fish; nor by calling criticism 'sentimental'. Those tactics are too familiar from defences of other brutalities, past and present." "Patrick Curry, "Letters: Icelandicism", Times Literary Supplement, 12 July, 1997, p. 17.

"Monopoly has give way to deregulation and privatisation, and the executors of 'legitimate coercion' wear many uniforms today, few among them state-designed". Zygmunt Bauman, "When Violence Becomes the Defence of Order", Times Literary Supplement, 23 August 1996, p. 30

"During the 1950s, anti-Communism and anti-Semitism were interwoven in America. What was particularly deadly was any interconnection between the two ... A combination of the two suited the mood of the time". "When the Judge Consulted God", Jewish Chronicle, 28 June, 1996, p. 27