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"The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there."
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"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."
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"We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread."
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"You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible."
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"He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much."
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"I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal."
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"Though I be poor, I'm honest."
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"We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet."
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"Bush is a very poor impromptu speaker. He does fine in small groups but when speaking without a script in front of large groups or answering questions he wasn't prepped for, he has problems."
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"The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash."
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"I'm not knocking the poor homosexual, I'm not. They need salvation just like anybody else."
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"For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes, that the peasants would soon be on their side."
War
"As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food."
Food
"And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails."
Economy
"But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be accomplished by the masses, the political parties and the Trade Unions, by means of the most severe struggle, also inwardly."
Leadership
"The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants."
Time
"You should not do this, Comrade. We are only in the introductory stage yet, here in Western Europe. And in that stage it is better to encourage the fighters than the rulers."
Politics
"Because in Russia you were able to triumph with the help of a large class of poor peasants, you represent things in such a way, as if we in Western Europe are also going to have that help."
Politics
"This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat."
Truth
"To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!"
Politics
"The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected."
Revolution
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