Quotes with political)

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  • Abraham Cahan At one time he was employed on one of the Yiddish dailies, but lost his job during a political campaign, when he refused to write two editorials advocating the election of two opposing candidates, both to appear in the same issue of the newspaper.
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Bill Dedman Because appearing to be fair is part of being fair, most mainstream news organizations discourage marching for causes, displaying political bumper stickers or giving cash to candidates.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Barney Frank Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley Bolshevism presented itself as an economic threat to themselves at the same time that Nazism presented itself as a political threat to their countries.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Toni Morrison Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Bill Dedman Both CNN and NPR prohibit political activity by all journalists, no matter their assignment.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Adam Weishaupt But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Aristide Briand But I am sure also that from a political point of view, and from a social point of view the federal link, without infringing the sovereignty of any of the nations which might take part in such as association, could be beneficial.
    Aristide Briand
    French statesman (1862 - 1932)
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  • Bjork But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Anita Hill But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • C. Wright Mills By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.
    The Power Elite (1956)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Audre Lorde Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
    A Burst of Light: And Other Essays (2017)
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Cass Sunstein Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Bob Woodward Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Edmund Burke Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • James Baldwin Color is not a human or a personal reality it is a political reality.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bhagat Singh Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Bram Cohen Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.
    Bram Cohen
    American computer programmer (1975 - )
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