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It is sometimes discouraging to see how small the peace movement is, and especially here in America where it is most necessary. But we have to remember that this is the usual pattern, and the Bible has led us to expect it. Spiritual work is done with disproportionately small and feeble instruments.. And now above all when everything is so utterly complex, and when people collapse under the burden of confusions and cease to think at all, it is natural that few may want to take on the burden of trying to effect something in the moral and spiritual way, in political action. Yet this is precisely what has to be done.
Avarice | Children | Cruelty | Doubt | Evil | God | Grace | Greed | Human race | Love | Lust | Man | Mercy | Oppression | Peace | People | Race | Sin | Wills | Cruelty | God | Think |
Oh, friendly to the best pursuits of man, friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace, domestic life in rural leisure passed! few know thy value, and few taste thy sweets.
O popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet seducing charms? The wisest and the best feel urgent need of all their caution in thy gentlest gales; but swell'd into a gust - who then, alas! with all his canvas set, and inexpert, and therefore heedless, can withstand thy power?
Oppression | Rumor |
Oh! Let me then at length be taught what I am still so slow to learn; that god is love, and changes not, nor knows the shadow of a turn.
Oh let me then at length be taught what I am still so slow to learn that god is love, and changes not, nor knows the shadow of a turn.
Oppression | Rumor |
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Every guy looks in his pocket and then votes.
Rumor |
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
I sit by the restless all the dark night, some are so young, Some suffer so much, I recall the experience sweet and sad, (Many a soldier's loving arms about this neck have cross'd and rested, Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips.)
Agony | Deeds | Jealousy | Martyrs | Meanness | Mother | Oppression | Wife | Deeds |
If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in the good health of our worldly places, our homelands. If we were sincerely looking for a place of safety, for real security and success, then we would begin to turn to our communities - and not the communities simply of our human neighbors but also of the water, earth, and air, the plants and animals, all the creatures with whom our local life is shared.
Ability | Beauty | Change | Freedom | Health | Mistrust | Oppression | Order | War | Will | Beauty | Think | Understand |
W. E. B. Du Bois, fully William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
The cause of war is preparation for war.
Cruelty | Lord | Oppression | Power | Cruelty |
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
Absurd | Attention | Books | Earth | Evidence | Humanity | Important | Means | Oppression | Order | Paradise | Philosophy | Practice | Proletariat | Question | Reflection | Religion | Society | Struggle | Tomorrow | Unity | Will | Society | Old | Propaganda |
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
When nine-tenths of Africa had been seized (by 1900), when the whole world had been divided up, there was inevitably ushered in the era of monopoly possession of colonies and, consequently, of particularly intense struggle for the division and the re-division of the world.
Freedom | Oppression | Society | System | Society |
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
The status of women up to now has been compared to that of a slave; women have been tied to the home, and only socialism can save them from this. They will only be completely emancipated when we change from small-scale individual farming to collective farming and collective working of the land.
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Although the Russian bourgeois revolution of 1905-07 displayed no such “brilliant” successes as at time fell to the Portuguese and Turkish revolutions, it was undoubtedly a “real people’s” revolution, since the mass of the people, their majority, the very lowest social groups, crushed by oppression and exploitation, rose independently and stamped on the entire course of the revolution the imprint of their own demands, their attempt to build in their own way a new society in place of the old society that was being destroyed.
Culture | Genius | Oppression | Science | Will |
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism.
Oppression | Revolution | Society | Time | Society | Old |
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Socialists must explain to the masses that they have no other road of salvation except the revolutionary overthrow of “their” governments, and that advantage must be taken of these governments’ embarrassments in the present war precisely for this purpose.
Fighting | Oppression |
Virgil, also Vergil, fully Publius Vergilius Maro NULL
The spirit within nourishes, and mind instilled throughout the living parts activates the whole mass and mingles with the vast frame.
Rumor |
Monsieur to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea. Ignominy thirsts for respect.
Oppression | Right |
But doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Much Ado About Nothing, Act ii, Scene 3
Rumor |
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