"This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen."

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"This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen."

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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."

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"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."

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"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion."

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

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."

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"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."

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"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."

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"I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler."

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"Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace."

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"This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen."

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"Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence."

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"I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population."

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"My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave."

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"I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States."

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"And, gentlemen, they have not yet done so, and it is quite clear that no Americans, no people in the world probably, are going to war with the Soviet Union."

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"Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa."

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"At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war."

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