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Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens.
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The country was founded on the principle that primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains.
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
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I don’t favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody would like to reach his objectives peacefully. But I’m also a realist. The only people in this country who are asked to be nonviolent are black people.
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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.
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Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.