Sara Silverstein
Historian. Writer. Public & global health, rights, internationalism, migration, citizenship & statelessness, Modern & Eastern Europe. Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut, Department of History and Human Rights Institute. Views my own.
- "this your mountanish inhumanity" Shakespeare of course had the words to describe attacks on immigrants, writing 400 years ago. (1/7) www.tiktok.com/@colbertlate...
- (2/7) "Imagine that you see the wretched strangers, Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage, Plodding to the ports and coasts for transportation, And that you sit as kings in your desires, Authority quite silent by your brawl, And you in ruff of your opinions clothed; What had you got?
- (3/7) "I’ll tell you. You had taught How insolence and strong hand should prevail, How order should be quelled; and by this pattern Not one of you should live an aged man,
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View full thread(7/7) "what would you think To be thus used? This is the strangers’ case; And this your mountainish inhumanity." William Shakespeare, in "Sir Thomas More," Act 2, Scene 4 (c. 1590s)
