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"I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism."
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"As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed."
"The central planners of Democratic Socialism tighten their noose when people resist their plans and assert their rights. All Socialism is intended to devolve into Communism, and as a result, Totalitarianism."
"For my part, while I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race."
"Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
"A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect."
"The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level."
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"Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom."
"Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?"
"Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be."
"There is little to be said in favour of poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor."
"When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our lifetime."
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