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Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.


Ida B. Wells


#country #creature #crime #fury #hour

Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.


John Warner


#around #bear #cost #defend #effort

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.


Adam Weishaupt


#could #done #education #every #every man

This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.


Adam Weishaupt


#attaining #clouds #enlightening #great #held

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.


H. G. Wells


#dissension #dock #gamble #homicide #international

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.


Ai Weiwei


#appetite #around #art #booming #china

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.


H. G. Wells


#anything #confess #crew #doing #i

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.


Ida B. Wells


#america #burning #civilized #confessed #hanging

I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there.


Lynn Westmoreland


#civil #defense #downer #fema #firefighters

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.


Wim Wenders


#course #credible #criticism #decay #film






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