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C. L. R. James

"First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle."

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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

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"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."

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"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."

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"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."

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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

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"I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making."

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"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."

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"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."

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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

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"Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences."
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"I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense."
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"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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"As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study."
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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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"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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"All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca."
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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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"The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people."
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"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."
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