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C. L. R. James

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

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"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."

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"Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government."

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"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."

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"The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush."

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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."

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"There shall be no end to the government of God."

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"I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money."

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"Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."

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"We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."

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"For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."

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"I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense."
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"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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"All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca."
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"Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached."
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