He loves black people with a fuck of a lot of money

I would like to say yeah, he [Kanye West*] was right but he wasn't ... I'm sure George Bush has a lot of black friends. He loves black people with a fuck of a lot of money. He doesn't care about people that don't have money. It just so happens that those people are black.

William James Adams [will.i.am], quoted in D. Lynskey, 33 Revolutions per minute: a history of protest songs (2010), 676


* This was Kanye West saying on live television, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, 'George Bush doesn't care about black people'

On the other hand, we were on acid

You can't approach the White Panther party without a sense of humour .. I mean, on the one hand we were serious political revolutionaries who wanted to overthrow the government. On the other hand, we were on acid.

John Sinclair, quoted in D. Lynskey, 33 Revolutions per minute: a history of protest songs (2010), 209

In break-up terms, the equivalent of piling his ex-lover's belongings in a heap and setting fire to them

[Dylan] returned at Yarrow's urging for an acoustic encore of 'Mr Tambourine Man' and, telling, 'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue'. Unsettled and irate, he then went off and wrote the scornful 'Positively 4th Street' - in break-up terms, the equivalent of piling his ex-lover's belongings in a heap and setting fire to them.

D. Lynskey, 33 Revolutions per minute: a history of protest songs (2010), 86

At dawn the barbed wire was full of children’s washing hung out in the wind to dry

The mothers stayed up to prepare the food for the journey with tender care, and washed their children and packed their luggage; and at dawn the barbed wire was full of children’s washing hung out in the wind to dry. Nor did they forget the diapers, the toys, the cushions and the hundred other small things which mothers remember and which children always need. Would you not do the same? If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him to eat today?

P. Levi, If this is a man (1958), tr. S. Woolf, If this is a Man / The Truce (1979), 21

The principles of progress and reform had been those of wisdom and justice in every age of the world

He [Dr Arnold] was, as he consistently declared, a Liberal. In his opinion, by the very constitution of human nature, the principles of progress and reform had been those of wisdom and justice in every age of the world - except one: that which preceded the fall of man from paradise. Had he lived then Dr Arnold would have been a Conservative.

L. Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918), 174

He could not withstand the last enchantment of the Middle Age

If Newman had never lived, or if his father when the gig came round on the fatal morning, still undecided between the two Universities, had chanced to turn the horse's head in the direction of Cambridge, who can doubt that the Oxford Movement would have flickered out its little flame unobserved in the Common Room of Oriel. And how different, too, would have been the fate of Newman himself! ... At Oxford, he was doomed. He could not withstand the last enchantment of the Middle Age.It was in vain that he plunged into the pages of Gibbon or communed for long hours with Beethoven over his beloved violin. The air was thick with clerical sanctity, heavy with the odours of tradition and the soft warmth of spiritual authority.

[There's actually lots more of this. I'd urge you to read it]

L. Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918), 23