#communist

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

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Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system. ↗

— Richard Lugar

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No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

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When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit. ↗

— Albert Maltz

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Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

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I am very proud of the fact that many workers in my Gau, numerous former Communists and Social Democrats were won over by us and became local group leaders and Party functionaries. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

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In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

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But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

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