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- I believe, and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
- William Henry Harrison (1773 - 1841), Speech, October 1, 1840
- Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
- Frederick Douglass (1817 - 1895), Speech, April 1886
- The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another--no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
- Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895), preface to Kark Marx, The Civil War in France, 1891
- The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.
- Henry Wallace (1888 - 1965), Speech in New York City, May 8, 1942
- That little man in black over there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
- Sojourner Truth (1797 - 1883), Ain't I A Woman, a speech delivered in 1851
- Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
- Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971), remark at the Polish embasy in Moscow, Nov. 18, 1956
- Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), New England Reformers, 1844
- The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Speech in Syracuse, NY Sep. 29, 1936
- Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Resolutions, 1803
- If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
- Frederick Douglass (1817 - 1895)
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