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“Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance.”

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Book:Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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“For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up. We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.”

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Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton was hateful in his behavior to women, pathological as a liar, and deeply suspect when it came to money in politics. I have never had to take any of that back, whereas if you look up what most of my profession was then writing about the beefy, unscrupulous 'New Democrat,' you will be astonished at the quantity of sheer saccharine and drool. Anyway, I kept on about it even after most Republicans had consulted the opinion polls and decided it was a losing proposition, and if you look up the transcript of the eventual Senate trial of the president—only the second impeachment hearing in American history—you will see that the last order of business is a request (voted down) by the Senate majority leader to call Carol and me as witnesses. So I can dare to say that at least I saw it through.”

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Book:Hitch 22: A Memoir
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“Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.”

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Book:Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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“In the natural sciences, some checks exist on the prolonged acceptance of nutty ideas, which do not hold up well under experimental and observational tests and cannot readily be shown to give rise to useful working technologies. But in economics and the other social studies, nutty ideas may hang around for centuries. Today, leading presidential candidates and tens of millions of voters in the USA embrace ideas that might have been drawn from a 17th-century book on the theory and practice of mercantilism, and multitudes of politicians and ordinary people espouse notions that Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and others exploded more than two centuries ago. In these realms, nearly everyone simply believes whatever he feels good about believing.”

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Author:Robert Higgs
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“People online change, pretend, are fake, and not serious. They take things easy, for granted and they are different online than physical. People are mean and vile online, especially when they know they are anonymous. I know we are moving with time and technology. But, do you really think online voting will work? Do you think people will vote for the right party? Do you think people will take it seriously and do you think they will make the right decision? Do you think the party that wins? Will be the right party that deserves to win. If the IEC says, people must vote online? Until we all have integrity. We are not ready for online voting.”

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Author:De philosopher DJ Kyos
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“The sad thing about Politicians. Is that they know that they must target the poor people to get the votes. poor people who lack everything , including basic things, because of them. They go to the poor people not to help them, but to get votes from them. No remorse, No shame. Some people are just heartless. How can you take from someone who has nothing. You want the same person to support you and applaud you when you are eating. Showing off your luxury lifestyle to someone who has no basic needs, because of you.”

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Author:De philosopher DJ Kyos
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“I think we have developed Stockholm syndrome for our corrupt leaders. To the certain extend that we fight the law in defending them and we will do and say anything in defending and justifying their corruption. As long you are defending a corrupt person or party. You are an instigator of corruption, because those leaders will remain corrupt, knowing you will side and stand by them. You are an accomplice in robbing people their future, education, jobs, opportunities and good life, because you are loyal to a person or party , not loyal to a good cause .”

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Author:De philosophe DJ Kyos
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“I have never seen a generation of people so eager for a paycheck, but lazy to work for earnings. A people that will complain about the realities they rightly have power to change, but choose to ignore. And, worse a culture of bickering for what could be, when in reality, is. It is my hope that the future will be more intelligent, focused and ready for action, just as those that see what can be changed, but have no power to make the change, TODAY for a better TOMORROW!!”

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Author:Andrew-Knox B Kaniki
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“Those who benefit from apartheid , will defend apartheid. Those who benefit from corruption, will defend people who commit corruption. Those who benefit from racism, will defend people who are racist, and those who benefit from crime, will defend criminals. People will defend anything and anyone, when they are benefiting from that person or system. Regardless of whether the person is morally or by law right or wrong. Whether the person is doing right or wrong things. To them , because they are benefitting. The person will always be right.”

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Author:De philosopher DJ Kyos
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“A year [after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965], the white backlash had become an emotional electoral issue in California, Maryland and elsewhere. In several Southern states men long regarded as political clowns had become governors or only narrowly missed election, their magic achieved with a “witches’” brew of bigotry, prejudice, half-truths and whole lies.”

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Book:Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
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“To know the good from the bad, study a man or woman's history of actions, not their record of intentions.”

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Book:Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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“In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.”

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Book:Wealth of Words
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“Pops added,"you know, they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve." "And if you do, you never get the results you expected," (Katherine) replied.”

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Book:Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
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“Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one who allows corporations to outsource jobs for cheaper labor when there is a national employment crisis. Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance. Stability, not fear and terror. Peace, not chaos. Love, not hate. Convergence, not segregation. Tolerance, not discrimination. Fairness, not hypocrisy. Substance, not superficiality. Character, not immaturity. Transparency, not secrecy. Justice, not lawlessness. Environmental improvement and preservation, not destruction. Truth, not lies.”

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Book:Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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“Typically, in politics, more than one horse is owned and managed by the same team in an election. There's always and extra candidate who will slightly mimic the views of their team's opposing horse, to cancel out that person by stealing their votes just so the main horse can win. Elections are puppet shows. Regardless of their rainbow coats and many smiles, the agenda is one and the same.”

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Book:Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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“...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected.”

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Book:Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
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“It was the winter after the most depressing election of my adult life, a low point for my faith in the polls, and I had started keeping an unofficial tally in my head of how much I trusted each new white person I met. It was a pitiful tally, because I had decided most of them would forgive anyone who harmed me, would worry more about vocal antiracism ruining the holiday party season and causing the cheese plates to go to waste than about the lives and sanity of the nonwhite humans in their midst.”

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Book:The Office of Historical Corrections
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“Pick a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A leader who encourages diversity, not racism. One who understands the needs of the farmer, the teacher, the welder, the doctor, and the environmentalist -- not only the banker, the oil tycoon, the weapons developer, or the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyist.”

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Book:Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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“If we are not registering bad events in history to learn from them, then why are we even still registering them at all? Is it really an outlandish ideal to want a peaceful and prosperous nation, ruled only by compassion, truth and justice? As of now, there is no peace, no truth, no prosperity, no compassion - and NO COMMON SENSE. Since when did the words human and inhumane share the same meaning? Think, people. I am only asking you to THINK.”

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Book:Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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“Stories abound... of governments' heavy reliance on focus groups and other forms of research to pre-test the likely political effect of policies. Not to test the integrity or efficacy of the polices; not to see whether it fits within a particular philosophical framework, merely to test its palatability or, to be brutally frank, its likely contribution to a government's prospects of re-election.”

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Book:The Kindness Revolution: How we can restore hope, rebuild trust and inspire optimism
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“The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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“In countries Where development is a Right and not a tool of trade; politicians using development projects to buy loyalty and votes, parliaments are more useful than statehouses. Where leaders- elected and appointed practice professionalism, independence, autonomy and dare to trust the courage of their convictions, corruption doesn't thrive. Most democracies have turned into cesspools because of corruption.”

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Author:Njau Kihia
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“When empowered with the right information, an adult of sound mind has the freedom and the autonomy to make informed decision(s). Their interest is not on who wins but who best represent their values. They should therefore not be forced through coercion and threats to surrender their universal suffrage to any puppets they aren't willing to bank their future on. Their choice should respected.”

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Author:Njau Kihia
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“In a plutocracy, commercialism dominates far beyond the realm of economics and business; everything is for sale, and money is power. But in an authentic democracy, there must be commercial-free zones where the power of human rights, citizenship, community, equality, and justice are free from the corrupting influence of money. Our elections and our governments should be such commercial-free zones; our environment, air, and water should never fall under the control of corporations or private owners. Children should not be programmed by a huckstering economy where their vulnerable consciousness becomes the target of relentless corporate marketing and advertising.”

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Book:Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think
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