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Fidel Castro Politician, Revolutionary
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"The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship."

Firsts Enemy Doubt
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Joseph Stalin Politician, Revolutionary
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"Anti-Semitism is dangerous for the toilers, for it is a false track which diverts them from the proper road and leads them into the jungle. Hence, Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable and bitter enemies of anti-Semitism. In the U.S.S.R., anti-Semitism is strictly prosecuted as a phenomenon hostile to the Soviet system. According to the laws of the U.S.S.R. active anti-Semites are punished with death."

Law Enemy Track
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless. In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future."

Community Enemy Shopping
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Assata Shakur Activist
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"Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you."

Enemy Fool
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Sri Aurobindo Philosopher, Poet, Politician
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"Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism."

Enemy Hypocrisy Selfishness
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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

People Enemy Forgiving
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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives."

Jesus Enemy Islam
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Napoleon Bonaparte Military Leader, Emperor
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"No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate."

Fall Enemy Fate
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Saint Francis de Sales Saint, Bishop
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"The enemy often tries to make us attempt and start many projects so that we will be overwhelmed with too many tasks, and therefore achieve nothing and leave everything unfinished. Sometimes he even suggests the wish to undertake some excellent work that he foresees we will never accomplish. This is to distract us from the prosecution of some less excellent work that we would have easily completed. He does not care how many plans and beginnings we make, provided nothing is finished."

Wish Enemy Excellent Work
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Samuel Adams Politician
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"A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy."

America Enemy Liberty
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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems."

Love You Enemy Revolution
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