#russia

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#color #felt #first #first time #full

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#get #go #hate #i #i love

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one. ↗

— Herbert Read

#already #clear #gradually #new #new religion

I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since. ↗

— David Remnick

#four #history #i #interested #language

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia. ↗

— David Remnick

#bred #brutal #corruption #field #free

In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#heat #horrible #imaginable #instrument #martyrdom