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"Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation."
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"You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country."
"The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President."
"The habit of using ardent spirits by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public and more trouble to me than all other causes. Were I to commence my administration again the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office would be Does he use ardent spirits?"
"Earthquake means destruction; dictator means destruction! In the case of earthquake, you need a strong building; in the case of dictator, you need an educated rational mind, because an irrational ignorant mind always serves the dictator!"
"National transformation is also attainable through the simple principle of Truth and Honesty."
"The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied...and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings."
"The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff."
"In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes!"
"People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people."
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"The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage."
"It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more."
"The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation."
"As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study."
"The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known."
"The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship."
"After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government."
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