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American self-making & self-help, Ben Franklin, Distribution of wealth…

- - - - Witch trials
        
        public execution: scaring people into not doing the wrong thing
        
        hysteria to control people through fear
        
        Cotton Mather
        
        “The witch trials offer a window into the anxieties and social tensions that accompanied New England’s increasing integration into the Atlantic economy.”
        
        “Mather and his fellow New Englanders believed that God directly intervened in the establishment of the colonies and that the New World was formerly the Devil’s territory. Cotton Mather’s account of the witch trials reinforced colonial New Englanders’ view of themselves as a chosen generation of men.”
- - - - “Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.“
    - - “They learned that truly feminine women do not want careers, higher education, political rights--the independence and the opportunities that the old-fashioned feminists fought for.”
        
        There was a predetermined image of what their lives were expected to look like from the moment they were born. With essentially no wiggle room, they didn’t feel that they were made to want anything else besides motherhood and submissiveness.
      - “What kind of a woman was she if she did not feel this mysterious fulfillment waxing the kitchen floor? She was so ashamed to admit her dissatisfaction that she never knew how many other women shared it.”
        
        The stigma surrounding mental health and the lack of authority women had made it almost impossible for them to identify/articulate their feelings.
    - - Women often find it difficult to speak their minds in situations like these. They were expected to happily accept a dance from any man in the room and make sure she doesn’t say or do anything that would upset him. Even though she knew it would be a simple ask, she subconsciously told him the opposite to keep him happy. Just like how she over-apologized for him kicking her shin, knowing it wasn’t her fault. We don’t want to create any trouble to be a burden to anyone so we overcompensate by taking accountability for things we didn’t do and trying to keep the peace as much as we can. Men do not usually feel responsible for these things because they’re allowed to make mistakes and be angry, women typically aren’t.
      - Dorothy Parker
  - - - “The best boys I know—the best men I know—are good at their studies or their business, fearless and stalwart, hated and feared by all that is wicked and depraved, incapable of submitting to wrong-doing, and equally incapable of being aught but tender to the weak and helpless“
- - - - “Under its influence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamb like disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness.”
        
        This happened with multiple mistresses, giving him a false sense of security only for it to be ripped away and replaced with hostility each time
        
        Why was it so easy for her to abandon her matern instincts and completely change the way she treated Douglas? What does her lack of empathy and guilt say about women in her position at this time?
  - - - But once we all realize that we have this common enemy, then we unite on the basis of what we have in common. And what we have foremost in common is that enemy — the white man. He’s an enemy to all of us. I know some of you all think that some of them aren’t enemies. Time will tell.
      - A vocal advocate for Black empowerment & the promotion of Islam within the Black community
      - Him and King were both Civil Rights activists as well as religious ministers