"When Nazi emissaries came to the United States, they were welcomed at Harvard."
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"After World War II there were many Jews who remained in refugee camps...President Harry F. Truman called for the Harrison Commission to investigate the situation in the camps and it was a pretty gloomy report. There were very few Jews admitted into the United States."
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"In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second World War."
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"They [the union] were members of the Communist Party - they didn't care one way or another about Russia, they just cared about the United States."
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"The United States is going to continue to punish Iran because of its defiance."
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"The criminalization of Black life was something specific to the United States in the post-Reconstruction period and there's something like it happening today with mass incarceration, directed largely against black males."
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"I don't think that the United States cares. They just assume that North Korea will soon have nuclear weapons."
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"Real wages for male workers in the United States are about what they were in the '60s."
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"The [Barack] Obama administration has pressured Mexico to keep them away from the Mexican border, so that they don't succeed in reaching the United States. Pretty much the same thing Europeans have done to Turks and Syrians."
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"Yes, and Syrians. There is a horrible crisis there and the United States has admitted virtually none of the refugees."
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"The major organizing centers, like the labor movement, have been severely weakened in the United States by policy."
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"United States has comparative advantage in military force. It tends to react to anything at first with military force, that's what it's good at. And I think they overdid it. There was more military force than was necessary."
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"The United States is alone among all the countries in that it does not permit US military forces to be under any threat. Other countries are willing to have forces in peace-keeping operations where they sometimes are under threat, but the US is not willing to do that."
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"The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of Europe, as the foundation of the United States of the World."
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"The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression and that every."
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"The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition; and Massachusettsis one of the confederated overseers to prevent their escape."
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"That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia."
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"By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers."
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"The public library system of the United States is worth preserving."
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"Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States."
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