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""...I'm not sure that if it had come to a choice between Harold [Wilson, the British Prime Minister] and Barbara [Castle, a Cabinet Minister] and the survival of the Labour Movement and Government, people would not let them go; and I think Harold knew that and that was why he was so angry. ...he did emerge as a small man with no sense of history and as somebody really [w/o] leadership qualities." -from June 17, 1969." — Mar 15, 2015 09:24PM
""...I'm not sure that if it had come to a choice between Harold [Wilson, the British Prime Minister] and Barbara [Castle, a Cabinet Minister] and the survival of the Labour Movement and Government, people would not let them go; and I think Harold knew that and that was why he was so angry. ...he did emerge as a small man with no sense of history and as somebody really [w/o] leadership qualities." -from June 17, 1969." — Mar 15, 2015 09:24PM
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""The agreement - signed by Amy Dacey and Robby Mook with a copy to Marc Elias - specified that in exchange for raising money and investing in the DNC [Democratic National Committee], Hillary would control the party's finances, strategy, and the money raised. ... The DNC also was required to consult with the campaign about all other staffing, budgeting, data, analytics, and mailings." - p. 97," — Dec 08, 2017 04:56PM
""The agreement - signed by Amy Dacey and Robby Mook with a copy to Marc Elias - specified that in exchange for raising money and investing in the DNC [Democratic National Committee], Hillary would control the party's finances, strategy, and the money raised. ... The DNC also was required to consult with the campaign about all other staffing, budgeting, data, analytics, and mailings." - p. 97," — Dec 08, 2017 04:56PM
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"“Corporate power is at a zenith in America, and business has privileges not seen since the Gilded Age. â€� The courts are expanding corporate rights, as companies exert great political power and dominate our policy discourse. But the most valuable perquisite corporate officers possess is the ability to commit crimes with impunity. Such injustice threatens American democracy.â€� p. xxi" — Jul 24, 2017 09:19AM
"“Corporate power is at a zenith in America, and business has privileges not seen since the Gilded Age. â€� The courts are expanding corporate rights, as companies exert great political power and dominate our policy discourse. But the most valuable perquisite corporate officers possess is the ability to commit crimes with impunity. Such injustice threatens American democracy.â€� p. xxi" — Jul 24, 2017 09:19AM
“If you want, let's say, to deny the people certain rights, keep them ignorant of the Bill of Rights. If nobody understands who we were, we won't question why we are what we are. ... [I]t's to the interest of the oligarchs --- the national security statespersons --- keep the people ignorant.”
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“... let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal." - President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (June 10th, 1963)”
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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.”
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“Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.”
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“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them â€� peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances. If they cannot enter the circle of your life, do not deny them at least a nod of recognition.”
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