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“If the new government rejects our urgent appeal, we will, next year, in solidarity with our people, intensify our struggle for self-determination, our struggle for national liberation to establish self-government in our homeland.”

People Ifs Years Self Government Next Struggle Determination Appeals Liberation Rejects Self Determination Solidarity Urgent Next Year Homeland Self-government New Government

Author:Velupillai Prabhakaran

“If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.”

Ifs Government School Certain Struggle Atheism Conditions Duty Debate Operations

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic issue that can be kicked about by reactionary guardians of the status quo; it is rather an eternal moral issue which may well determine the destiny of our nation in the ideological struggle with communism. The hour is late. The clock of destiny is ticking out. We must act now, before it is too late.”

“Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills.”

Government Simple Pay Struggle Taxes Raises Bills Fairness

Book:Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan

Source: Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan

“In a democracy it is ultimately for us, the citizens, to judge where to place the balance between security and privacy, safety and liberty. It's our lives and liberties that are threatened, not only by terrorism but also by massive depredations of our privacy in the name of counter-terrorism. If those companies from which governments actually take most of our intimate details want to show that they are still on the side of the angels, they had better join this struggle for transparency too.”

“The most widely discussed formulation of [the One World model] was the "end of history" thesis advanced by Francis Fukuyama. "We may be witnessing," Fukuyama argued, "the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government." The future will be devoted not to great exhilarating struggles over ideas but rather to resolving mundane economic and technical problems. And, he concluded rather sadly, it will all be rather boring.”

“All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it all amount before God except child's play, by means of which God is pleased to give his gifts in the field, at home, and everywhere? These are the masks of our Lord God, behind which he wants to be hidden and to do all things.”

Want Giving Mean Children Doe Play Home Government Cities Behinds Lord Struggle Fields Amount Garden All Things Mask Our Lord Lord God

Author:Martin Luther

“The real struggle between an American government and the people was one of power, which was settled when they designed their Constitution, which conceded the sovereignty of the people when it came to politics, and the sovereignty of the consumer when it came to economics.”

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Author:Ndabaningi Sithole

“Let America symbolize humanity's struggle to conquer nature and master technology. The time has now come for our Government to facilitate the individual's control over his or her future - and of the future of America.”

Government America Humanity Individual Technology Struggle Masters Conquer Facilitate Future Of America

Author:Gerald R. Ford