Fidel Castro
Politician, Revolutionary
"Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants."
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Peasants
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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Statesman, Founder of Republic
"Turkey's true master is the peasant."
Confucius
Philosopher
"There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant."
Pablo Picasso
Painter, Sculptor
"Basically the French are all peasants."
Robin Williams
Actor, Comedian
"I met Jonah Lomu. I never knew how huge he was. I felt like a peasant in a Godzilla movie. 'Quickly! Tell the other villagers! We go now!'"
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"There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants."
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"It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor."
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"The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace."
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"There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor."
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"We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right."
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"When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating."
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"Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal."
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"The lord is the peasant that was, The peasant is the lord that shall be."
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"The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head."
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"There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants."
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