If the source of popular government in time of peace is virtue, the sources of popular government in rebellion is at once virtue
and terror; virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, secure, and inflexible. It is therefore a display of virtue; it is not so much a special principle as it is a consequence of the general principles of democracy applied to the most urgent wants of the country. What is the main idea of this passage?
A good government may need to use terror in a time of revolution.
A good government will never use terror to accomplish its goals.
The best governments use terror whenever they want to.
The best governments like using terror the least
The Chinese and the Mexican-Americans were the bulk of workers who built the American transcontinental rairoad in the 19th century. The Chinese arrived in large numbers in the second half of the century escaping poverty and turmoil in China, and there were large Mexican populations living in the USA. Only agricultural work offered more employment to Mexicans than the railroad works.
Traute Grier explained her experiences as her being scared of the Russians. She felt nothing could ever be worse than falling into the hands of her Russian enemies that had, just three years prior, taken down Berlin. She is telling this in first person point of view, reliving her own experiences.
