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Quotes by Leader
"At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition."
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"I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal."
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"In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes."
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"When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens."
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"Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone."
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"Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity."
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"I shall live here in the rains,There in winter,Elsewhere in summer,' muses the fool,Not aware of the nearness of death."
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"Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul."
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"One cannot worship the false god of nationalism and the God of Christianity at the same time. ."
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"Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy."
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"The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves."
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"People who decide they came to earth to work, who make work their personal philosophy, are kept very busy."
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"We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him."
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"Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at and who steals what is most precious to men."
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"I contested elections on the issue of development. It's my conviction, it's my commitment. Youngsters of the country believe in development. And it is development that is the solution to all the problems."
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"There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order."
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"Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking."
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"The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands."
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"God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless."
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"We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other."
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"A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labour members, of whom I was one."
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"Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems."
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"Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment."
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"The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession."
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"The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience."
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"The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer."
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"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."
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"Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America."
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"For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion."
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