#state

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#cruel #founded #greater #more #power

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#equality #free #government #independent #made

Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#confederacy #constituents #government #injury #interest

I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#government #i #liberation #people #states

The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#austria #been #destroying #house #hundred

Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#despots #fact #generous #humanity #liberation

It was the first time she had visited me here in upstate New York. It was the last time I saw her. ↗

— Dennis Kozlowski

#first time #had #her #here #i

Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#among #apartheid #confronted #education #educators

The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#equal #extra #extra money #greater #inequalities

Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#never #should #state #teachers #themselves