"Islam takes advantage of two structural flaws that exist in the Western society. One is political correctness and other is the decline of morality."
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"We cannot assume that people by virtue of the fact that they are black are going to associate themselves with progressive political struggles. We need to divest ourselves the kinds of strategies that assume that black unity black political unity is possible."
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"Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of mechanics; it must develop. All that progressives ask or desire is permission-in an era when 'development,' 'evolution,' is the scientific word-to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine."
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
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"For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and this must stop."
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"True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete."
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"The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world."
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"I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world."
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"The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it."
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"All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way."
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"When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us"
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"What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens."
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"The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them."
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"Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed."
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"I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me."
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"As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock of rights, derive greater benefits, than he could from merely his own; so, in forming a confederation, each political society should contribute such a share of their rights, as will, from a common stock of these rights, produce the largest quantity of benefits for them."
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"The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body"
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"The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil."
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"Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it."
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"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
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