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When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocki

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored. – Wendell Willkie

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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment. – Wendell Willkie

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War
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Wendell Willkie
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But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour. – Wendell Willkie

Category:
Freedom
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Wendell Willkie
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History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way. – Wendell Willkie

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Happiness
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Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives. – John Barbour

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Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all. – Garrett Hardin

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Freedom is the recognition of necessity. – Friedrich Engels

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The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations. – Lech Walesa

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History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened. – Earnest Albert Hooten, The Twilight of Man

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When it is not on the side of civil rights, then the law is not right, it is white. – Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

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Racism

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply. – Ulrich Beck

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This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. – Carroll Quigley

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