"Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power."

-- Hal Draper

#Fighting Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Able Quotes

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”

Source : Washington Irving, William Irving (1824). “Salmagundi”, p.151
“In short, I will preach it [the Word], teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith must come freely without compulsion. Take myself as an example. I opposed indulgences and all the papists, but never with force. I simply taught, preached, and wrote God's Word; otherwise I did nothing. And while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my friends Philip and Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such losses upon it. I did nothing; the Word did everything.”
“President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.”
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“Hookers do tricks, magicians make magic.”
“As great as technology is, it still has it's limitations, because it's only a frame of the truth”
“If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.”
“So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.”

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