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“If the earth could be truly shared, and people could come together to work it, there would be an end to all hunger and want, all greed and envy. The way to realize this vision was to act: words were 'nothing at all, and must die, for action is the life of all',”

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“There appeared before her eyes the figure of Oliver Cromwell, in the guise of the Old Testament military leader Gideon, going into the Commons Chamber and demanding the resignation of the Speaker and the end of the assembly: 'I saw suddenly a departure of them, though they were very loath thereunto.' When, four days later, news reached the Hillingdon vicarage that exactly these events had just occurred in London, Anna's friends were thunderstruck. She was not mad. God himself was speaking through her.”

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