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“In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement.”

Results Class History Millions Members Died Russia Minorities Warfare Persecution Class Warfare

Author:Niall Ferguson

“Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare becoming a mere lower-class brawl.”

Giving Facts Running Bits Class History Humour Becoming Army Mere Tone Officers Warfare Lower Class Sergeants

Book:The Carpet People

Source: The Carpet People

“Did a sense of shame ever reside in our Republican toadies? You can't stop people who are never embarrassed by themselves. Will's readiness to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse can be cited as world class sycophancy.”

People World Turns Class History Republican Ears Shame Embarrassed Purses Silk Readiness World Class Toady

Author:Norman Mailer

“Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration.”

“Prostitution thrives in the United States. We focus in this country on punishing the girls. For every brothel owner or pimp or male customer, there are 50 girls who are arrested for being prostitutes. Other countries have tried the other way around, and it works beautifully...they bring the charges against the brothel owners and the pimps and the male customers, and they do not prosecute the girls, who quite often are brought into that trade involuntarily. It works quite well, by the way.”

“We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as well. They wish for the world in which the United States was utterly dominant over its friends, its foes were to be shunned entirely, and the challenges were stark, moral, and vital. Today's world is messy and complicated. China is one of our biggest trading partners and our looming geopolitical rival. Russia is a surly spoiler, but it has a globalized middle class and has created ties in Europe.”

“I'm tired of the naked, raped, beaten black woman body. I want to see an image of black femaleness that alters our universe in some way.”

“Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.”

“The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.”

Wisdom Reality Leadership Class History Human Nature Fields News Strategy Individuality Athlete Really Great Civility Great Athlete

Author:Jimmy Haslam

“The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.”

Country Shows Able Effort Consciousness Class History Trade Unions Working Class Trade Unions Class Consciousness

Book:Essential Works of Lenin:

Source: Essential Works of Lenin:

“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.”

Has Beens Class History Struggle Philosophical Class Struggle

Author:Karl Marx

“Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.”

Years Class History Struggle Civilization Triumph Class Struggle

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

“I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.”

People Humans Children Doe Play Facts Leader Class Knowledge History Conditions Weapons Gun Blind Sells Court Strikes Driven Civilized Betray Working Class Starvation Shortcomings

Author:Mother Jones

“I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.”

Thinking May Funny Natural Class History Lawyer Monsters Natural History Best Lawyer Barristers

Book:Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition

Source: Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition

“In the election campaign of 1930, Hitler seldom spoke explicitly of Jews. The crude tirades of the early 1920s were missing altogether. 'Living-space' figured more prominently, posed against the alternative international competition for markets ... The key theme now was the collapse of Germany under parliamentary democracy and party government into a divided people with separate and conflicting interests, which only the NSDAP could overcome by creating a new unity of the nation, transcending class, estate and profession.”