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- The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed class that pays…
- A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes, give to the…
- The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country.
- My point is that it's incorrect to say that the Iraq policy isn't working. It is working. It is doing what they want. They have…
- Conservatives are fond of telling us what a wonderful, happy, prosperous nation this is. The only thing that matches their love of country is the…
- To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly represents. Such opposition…
- With unfailing consistency, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and…
- If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is…
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- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or… — Chinua Achebe
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country. — Chinua Achebe
- Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself. — Margaret Atwood
- I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood