"Political leaders still think things can be done……" — Mikhail Gorbachev

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• It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world… — James Buchan
• Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but nothing gives a… — George Whitefield
• But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented… — Ronald Reagan
• A long time ago I learned not to put the blame for backwardness in Brazil on the US. We have… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
• Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while… — Erich Fromm
• Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic.… — King Hussein I
• Any revolution which denies the right to criticize is bound to wallow in stagnation and backwardness. — Pablo Antonio Cuadra
• Russia, Russia-unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by… — George F. Kennan
• On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On… — Raymond Williams
• Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the… — Larry Elder

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