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“To me, this is from a Buddhist perspective or whatever, sometimes people who are working out their political beliefs, they can rage against the man, and yet at the same time can be oblivious to their own way of stepping on the foot of the person right next to them.”

People Men Way Persons Sometimes Political Next Belief Feet He Man Perspective Work Out Rage Buddhist Oblivious Political Beliefs

Author:Mike White

“All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.”

People Earth America Political Courses Nations Feet Land Including Possession Establishment Tribes Conquest Insignificant Stolen Territorial

Book:Following the Equator:

Source: Following the Equator:

“If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.”

Ifs Mind Problem Would Be Political Greater Feet Universal Remains Pyramids Suffrage Finality Universal Suffrage

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“So my life and the life of my family has been completely disrupted in absolutely every way. But it's been worth it. It's uncovered a vast cesspool of illegitimate economic and political power in which the Church is immersed right up to its ears, and I intend to dive in headfirst and pull it out of there dripping wet for all the world to see -- no matter how long it takes, no matter whose feet get stepped on in the process, no matter how much it costs, no matter how great the personal sacrifice.”

“In your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights are all alike ignored. Robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject; and not only myself individually, but all of my sex, are, by your honor's verdict, doomed to political subjection under this, so-called, form of government.”

“I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.”

Character Political Certain Views Cutting Feet Fit Not Interested Stretching Political View

Author:Margaret Atwood

“The Gringo, locked into the fiction of white superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their feet were still rooted in it. Con el destierro y el exilo fuimos desuñados, destroncados, destripados - we were jerked out by the roots, truncated, disemboweled, dispossessed, and separated from our identity and our history.”

Stills Political White Fiction Violence Feet Land Identity Roots Oppression Mexico Locked Rooted Superiority Political Power Stripping

Author:Gloria E. Anzaldúa

“The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading leaders directly and more trying to build a social movement that holds their feet to the fire.”

Way Trying Care Political Social Leader Issues Fire Feet Movement Conscience Pressure Social Movements Persuading

Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.”

Political Politics Feet Mass Parliamentary Sinai

Book:Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology

Source: Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology

“If Republican legislators succumb to their political addiction to compromise for the sake of getting something passed, no matter how odious, they'll be laying out the red carpet of inevitability for socialized care. Once government gets its foot in the door, more government control is unavoidable.”

Ifs Matter Government Care Political Doors Feet Republican Red Addiction Sake Compromise Carpet Legislators Red Carpet Inevitability

Author:David Limbaugh

“My life and the life of my family has been completely disrupted in absolutely every way by starting the school-prayer case. But it's been worth it. It's uncovered a vast cesspool of illegitimate economic and political power in which the Church is immersed right up to its ears, and I intend to dive in headfirst and pull it out of there dripping wet for all the world to see -no matter how long it takes, no matter whose feet get stepped on in the process, no matter how much it costs, no matter how great the personal sacrifice.”