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I dream that someday the United States will be on the side of the peasants in some civil war. I dream that we will be… — Michael Parenti
Under chattel slavery and feudalism, exploitation was concrete and personalized in the producer's relationship with his master. The slave and peasant knew exactly who was… — Kevin Carson
The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English, the French and… — Orlando Figes
We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by… — Angela Davis
The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved. — Alan Furst
I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I… — Gavrilo Princip
He came, not as a flash of light or as an unapproachable conqueror, but as one whose first cries were heard by a peasant girl… — Max Lucado
The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him. — Anton Chekhov
The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would… — Gertrude Stein
The peasants have seen the future - Greece and France - and concluded that it does not work. Hence their opposition to Obama's proudly transformational… — Charles Krauthammer
For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to… — Howard K. Smith
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is… — Plato
I'm a big star. I don't need to be dealing with you peasants! — Scott Disick
I think that what's so interesting about her is that she took to an extreme her embrace of peasant life even though she was a… — Tom Jaine
With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow… — Islom Karimov
Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread,… — Rex Stout
Chekhov said: let's put God - and all these grand progressive ideas - to one side. Let's begin with man; let's be kind and attentive… — Vasily Grossman
The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom he has confidence… — Chaim Weizmann
The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of sacrificing himself to having one… — Ernst Junger
It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant. . . . You… — Hilaire Belloc
Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the… — Zelda Fitzgerald
Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs. — Giuseppe Verdi
Could I but know all, I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman — Louis Pasteur
The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant. — Confucius
He (Hitler) is thinking about the peasant girls. When they stand in the fields and bend down at their work so that you can see… — Ernst Rohm

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