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Famous Quotes of the day

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he (sic) is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.

US Supreme Court Opinion, Brown vs. Board of Education Decision

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.

Leonardo Da Vinci

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus (540 BCE - 480 BCE)

In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.

President Dwight Eisenhower, January 1961

The United States supported and in many cases engendered every right wing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the Second World War. I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador, and, of course, Chile. The horror the United States inflicted upon Chile in 1973 can never be purged and can never be forgiven.

Harold Pinter, Nobel Lecture 2005
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