Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you. Nikita Khrushchev, remark at the Polish embasy in Moscow, Nov. 18, 1956
Russian Soviet politician (1894 - 1971) From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. Louis Blanc, The Organization of Work, 1840
French (Spanish-born) historian & socialist politician (1811 - 1882) The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man. Henry Wallace, Speech in New York City, May 8, 1942
US editor & Democratic politician (1888 - 1965) The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another--no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy. Friedrich Engels, preface to Kark Marx, The Civil War in France, 1891
German socialist & economist (1820 - 1895) Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. Frederick Douglass, Speech, April 1886
US abolitionist (1817 - 1895) The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. Lord Acton, Letter to Mary Gladstone, 1881 There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862
French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 - 1885) I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed tot he purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. William Henry Harrison, Speech, October 1, 1840
US general & politician (1773 - 1841) The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class. Aristotle, Politics
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute. J. William Fulbright, Speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. April 28, 1966
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