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"One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership."
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"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road."

"Achievements take leaders' name everywhere. Character keeps those names wherever they reach. A leader with no trust soon fades no matter how far he goes."

"In my father's last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility for the running of it. If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent."

"Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry."

"Never allow your limitations to tie you down for failure to whip."

"The Pilgrims had vision and hope because they lived in the dimension of eternity. Their strength of spirit was forged by a personal faith in God, by tough discipline, and by regular habits of devotion."

"If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer."

"The big thinking gives us vision, power and direction, but it is the small steps that are the action of the process."

"Millions of candles can be lighted from a single candle and the lifespan of that single candle will never be shortened! Feel free to share your success stories with every loved one out there, it will strengthen them but will never weaken you in any way."

"One of the first things you learn as a leader, whether you choose the position of have it forced upon you, is that leadership is as much about what you don't say as what you do say."
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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."

"The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage."

"My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas."

"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."

"In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital."

"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."
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